I already decided on what the Millennium Earl’s human face would look like before the series started running. That’s why I’m happy that I finally got to show his face. I remember creating him after thinking that having a tired older man as the final boss would be interesting considering grief is one of d.gray-man’s themes. I modelled his face after the editor of the JUMP J-books editorial department. My taste is completely reflected. I have something to say because people often have the wrong idea: while the Earl’s human version has a sweet tooth, he’s not fat…! He’s not !! I want to make that perfectly clear (laughs). I’ll reveal the secret of his outward appearance later down the story. I can’t say much yet, but that plumpness is very important (laughs).
2nd disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Judge Noah Name: Tryde
In the large Noah family his role is to make sure there are no betrayals. I made eyes cold and look like he’s killed countless people, because I wanted to make Tryde the most difficult to handle character. He’s like the Noah’s death god. But I removed parts of his outfit and gave him short pants, because if I make him too bloodthirsty it’d be harder for me to draw him (laughs). His outfit is changing considerably from the way it looked in early sketches…
3rd disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Pleasure Noah Name: Joyd Human Name: Tyki Mikk
I wanted to give Tyki short hair at first for his re-appearance in Night #187. I gave up on that idea afterwards, so this is a phantasmal Tyki (laughs). I want to cut his hair because the long hair is bothersome but… the readers might be shocked if I suddenly shorten his hair (smiles wryly). It’s probably obvious just by looking at the rough sketch, but his clothes were black at first. I discussed with my editor whether to make the Noah’s clothes white or black until the last minute. Because black is ultimately the color of the Exorcists, I decided on white in the end just before I started writing the official series.
4th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Desire Noah Name: Desires Human Name: Sheril Kamelot
It was really easy to create Sheril. I totally understand his ideas (laughs). I wanted to make each Noah wear clothes that fit his or her personality. It was easy to give him a fitting outfit because he seems to like perverted things and what not. He has a snake-like image, maybe because he’s very persistent.
5th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Wisdom Noah Name: Wisely
Wisely has the image of a mountain hermit sage. I originally made his hair black because the Noah’s hair is normally black. But, wanting to give him a ‘tired’ feel because his powers require using his head, I made his hair white on the monochrome draft. I’ll agonize over what official hair color I should give him in the future. I love his turban. I thought about giving it a more elaborate design but gave up on that idea due to various reasons. Wisely might be my favorite Noah. He’s the liveliest one.
6th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Corrosion Noah Name: Fiddler
Because he’s a Noah that has harmful microbes inside his body, I wanted him to leave an impact visually as well. I made the hair on top a poisonous-looking light blue to showcase his strangeness. But I gave him knee trousers because I wanted to show that he’s juvenile… or should I say, foolish on the inside (laughs). There are swirly decorations attached to the cuffs of his trousers in the sketch but I got rid of those. Furthermore, his triangular earrings stand out. Without the earrings he’d be pretty dull from a visual point of view (smiles wryly).
7th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Mercy Noah Name: Mercyma
I wanted to make Mercyma look like someone who doesn’t mind trading blows. That’s why I made his shirt barely cover his nipples and made it look like hitting him would be painful. In any case, I just wanted to show his six-pack abs (laughs). Most Noah have good looks, but I wanted Mercyma’s face to look wilder. His hairstyle, clothes and sunglasses look different in the actual story so the rough sketch is completely useless now (smiles wryly).
9th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Dreams Noah Name: Road Human Name: Road Kamelot
Road gives off a strong Gothic Lolita impression. Because of this, I made sure that her new clothes aren’t too different from the clothes she has worn so far. That’s why she has hardly changed (smiles wryly). But she only shows a bit more chest now. I wonder whether she looks less childish and more feminine now.
10th & 11th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Jasdevi Noah Name: Bonds Human Name: Bondomu
The only thing that I was certain of was that they should both have bandages on their left arms. Actually, it’s due to the Innocence that Krory infected them with… it’s still affecting them and their wounds haven’t healed yet. Because they were revived while suffering from those wounds, they’re burning with hatred towards Krory and their personalities have grown considerably darker. Rather than giving off childishness, they’re now giving off danger. I thought about giving them matching clothes because they’re twins, but I changed my mind because they’re completely different on the inside. Devit is wearing punk-rock clothes and Jasdero is manlier than before. I removed Jasdero’s stitches to show that time has passed.
13th disciple of the Noah Family Representation: Ability Noah Name: Mightra
Mightra a really inconspicuous Noah. He takes cares of everything behind the scenes: he’s like a lentigo. That’s why I felt like “he’s needs no individuality!” and made him wear alien-like clothes (laughs). People seem to think that the Earl created the Ark but Mightra created the Ark and the scull, etc. Mightra didn’t appear at all during the fights on the Ark because he worked behind the scenes (smiles wryly). He works hard in unseen places as the person in charge of the Noah’s technology. Please look forward to the day when he takes off his mask.
(T/N: The Japanese text doesn’t specify whether Mightra is male or female. I just used ‘he’ for convenience’s sake.)
I feel like Alabama and Georgie are a couple that have been together for twenty years and raised two beautiful children, god bless, but they’re just trying to figure out how to make their marriage work without the kids.
In one last ditch effort for happiness, they both take to Google.
You guys are sleeping on AZ wanting to straight up join the illuminati 😂😂
Indiana on that next level shit though
How to quit drinking what the fuck michigan
Are we all gonna ignore people in Indiana googling “How to Google something”?
the sorcerer’s stone: dudley asking harry if he wants to practice sticking his head down the toilet and harry replying “no thanks, the poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it – it might be sick” like ooo!!! sick burn!!! good for an 11 year old but overall still in the developmental stage. 6/10
the chamber of secrets: dudley (once again lmao get rekt) telling harry “i know what day it is” and harry replying “well done, so you’ve finally learned the days of the week.” lockhart trying to be all Amazing Teacher™ and shit and telling harry “just do what i did, harry!” and harry saying “what, drop my wand?” overall good but not with as much of an Oomph™ factor as the sorcerer’s stone. 5/10
the prisoner of azkaban: ah yes!!! Harry’s Sass™ in its adolescent years!!!! no longer a toddler, now solidly about 11 years old. draco making fun of harry for fainting at the quidditch game bc of the dementors and saying “shame [the broom] doesn’t come with a parachute – in case you get too near a dementor.” and harry replying “pity you can’t attach an extra arm to yours, malfoy. then it could catch the snitch for you.” 8/10 purely because he fucking MURDERED whiny bitch ass baby malfoy ha ha take that
the goblet of fire: a good amount of sass!! a healthy amount of sass! perhaps a bit held back though (come on harry get it together). rita skeeter annoying harry and asking for a word and jk rowling LITERALLY writing “‘yeah, you can have a word,’ said harry savagely. ‘good-bye'” like FUCK he is canon savage in this book!!!! DAMN!!!!! and then he reks malfoy AGAIN “you know that expression [your mother’s got], like she’s got dung under her nose? has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?” MOTHERFUCK GO OFF 9/10
the order of the phoenix: HOLY GRAIL OF HARRY’S SASS™. THE MOTHERLOAD. GOD DAMN. when vernon asks him why he’s listening to the news again and harry replies w/ “well, it changes every day, you see.” when hermione’s warning him about picking fights w/ malfoy bc malfoy will make life hard for him and harry’s like “wow, i wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life” like fuck harry!!! tell us how u really feel!!!! literally ANY TIME he talks to an adult he doesn’t like. sassing dudley left & right, putting him in his place w/ “this is night, diddykins. that’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this” like fuck harry brought out the big guns w/ “diddykins”. overall wonderful, truly. a good healthy teenage dose of sass. 100/10
the half blood prince: SHIT DO I EVEN NEED TO SAY ANYTHING EXCEPT “THERE’S NO NEED TO CALL ME SIR, PROFESSOR” LIKE FUCK. BEST PART OF THE WHOLE BOOK. OF THE WHOLE SERIES. FUCKING OWNED SNAPE HE’S FUCKIN REKT LYING ON THE FLOOR CRYING DRINKING SOME CHEAP ASS DISGUSTING ASS FIREWHISKEY. BREAKS THE GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING SCALE SO FAR OFF THE SCALE IT’S ON MARS. INFINITY/10. FUCK.
the deathly hallows: “it’s time you learned some respect!” “it’s time you earned it” sassing the minister of magic hooooooo boy. not much else bc harry’s too busy like saving the world and shit. so extra points for multitasking and being an overall well rounded sass-er. 8/10
Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed, I’m being watched.
I must hide this book before He finds it.
Remember— in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust.
I finiiiished! I’ve been working on this pretty much nonstop since that episode came out. Eight frames, thirty hours later… I’ve never done much in the way of animation before, so this was an adventure! I’m gonna… I’m gonna go not draw for a bit. Give my arm a break.
(Also, 300 followers? Thanks guys!)
Dude this is amazing!! You did such a great job!! 😀
So, fun things about adulting and doing taxes.
Ive been doing my own taxes for years. No problems. But goddamn, my fuckng 2015 taxes…
Filed it as usual with no issue.
Months later I get a letter from the Cali Tax Board saying their calculation of what I paid in CA income tax doesn’t match what I claimed.
I had W-2s proving that I paid the amount I claimed. So, I try to contact them to contest this, because that’s $100 fucking dollars, I cant pay that kind of money for their bullshit mistakes…
I tried calling. Their lines are literally so busy, you cant even get on the queue because the queue is full. This continued for months.
I tried going online. Their website system requires you make an account, then they send you a PIN code by mail, which expires within 15 days. Always arrived after the expiration.
I tried faxing my info and W-2s to the fax number they listed as one to send contests of tax liability to… I have a confirmation that it was successfully transmitted, but 6 months later, it was still never processed, so I can only imagine their fax machine just empties straight into the trash.
And I just keep getting threatening notices saying I need to pay, adding fines for not paying, threatening to take it directly out of my bank account or wages… and no way to contact them to inform them that this was a mistake on their part.
Yesterday I did finally manage to get through on the phone… after calling the number for an hour straight, going through the options, and being hung up on with a message that the queue was full… finally got into the queue, that had a wait time of 3 hours… and a few hours later got a hold of an actual live person to find out what actually caused their stupid error… It was allegedly because I had my name legally changed, so part of my taxes had been submitted under my old name. Sounds hella fishy tho, since it was almost exactly $100 dollars that they were saying was under my old name, when I changed my name nearly halfway into the year, so it should have been more than $100 paid under the old name by then… and the Federal Tax people had no issue with my taxes…
But basically, they admit its their error and I did pay my taxes… but get this… the guy doesn’t even know if the issue will actually be fixed. He said he doesn’t know if the taxes I paid under my old name will even count. So they may still go after me for these taxes, that I already paid, knowing that I paid them. Or, it may count, but they may not process the correction in time to not steal my money out of my paycheck or bank account.
Fucking California Tax Board are scammers I s2g.
And this took literally 7 months to even get this much information. The last notice they sent said if I didnt pay by today they would literally take the money so I dont know if theyre taking it out of my bank account or my next paycheck, but either way, Ill be so fucked because that basically comes out of my food budget then, which is already really small because Im fucking in debt because of my car breaking down.
Dont change your name in the middle of a tax year kids, it fucks your life up. At least, it does here in California, where the Tax Board doesnt seem to understand that changing names is a thing that people do, and will claim you are not the same person despite having the same SSN and everything.
Like every other tent at Standing Rock, the media tent at the Oceti Sakowin camp, commonly called “big camp,” is filled with volunteers. They gave each of us a rundown of the camp’s rules. (We feel like the “no drugs or alcohol” rule was stressed more stringently once they learned we wrote for Cracked.) Eventually, a press liaison named Michael explained that the open WiFi networks were basically a honeypot. “There are a number of unsecured WiFi networks within an eighth of a mile” of the camp. Those who connected would discover that their email passwords had been changed and they were temporarily locked out of their accounts. Michael also reported that the WiFi at the press tent “gets DDoS’d every couple of hours.”
Open WiFi is possible to spoof fairly simply, using legitimate-looking portals to collect any entered data, like email addresses and passwords. Setting up an attack can be as easy as hiding a device in a desired location and waiting for people to connect. Michael referred us to a pair of cybersecurity experts from NYU who’d been gathering data on all this for a while. One expert, whom we’ll call “Chuck Justice,” documented an ARP-basedDDoS attack on the press tent’s WiFi. “In [an] ARP attack, the DDoS agents constantly send a barrage of ARP requests to the gateway to tie up the resource of attacked gateway or host.” ARP-spoofing like this can be used to simply stop service, or to conduct a man in the middle attack. No condom. No cab fare home. Just a raw, unapologetic cyber dick-down.
This is a Wireshark simulation of what he observed in the midst of one such attack, based on the data he gathered at the time. It suggests that something funky is happening and that digital war zone photography probably won’t ever win a Pulitzer. Chuck noted that an open hot spot appeared as soon as the attack commenced. “Because the network was slow due to this DDoS, people would be tempted to join an insecure network.” The other expert, Ted, joined this network, and while he was performing a network diagnostic, “someone accessed [his] Gmail.”
Ancient Egyptians were using
20-sided die as early as 200 BCE. Source
i cant believe ancient egyptians were FUCKING NERDS
imagine ancient egyptian d&d tho
“You have crossed into the underworld and have encountered Anubis. You give him your heart to weigh.”
“I roll to Bluff.”
“You want to bluff Anubis? You can’t bluff Anubis, he’s a god, he has a godly Sense Motive check.”
“I want to bluff the scales.”
“…you want. To bluff. The scales.”
“Yup.”
“…you know what? I’ll allow it.”
“HA! Nat 20!”
“The scales, for some fucking reason, think your heart is lighter than the feather. Anubis is pretty sure you’re bullshitting him but you know what? Anubis has had a long day. Anubis is not gonna question the scales. You’re in.”
PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( xxx )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( xxx )
Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( xxx )
^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups
Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.
I can’t add links because I’m on mobile, but Locks of Love is an organization that takes donations of hair to make wigs for people with hair loss (cancer, among other conditions resulting in hair loss). They charge the kids for their wigs. I would suggest going to Wigs for Kids, a smilie organization that doesn’t charge (though they are very picky about dyed hair).
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