I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.
here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.
it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.
here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):
jewelry:
clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:
random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:
a tattoo:
and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):
anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.
i have one mac classic with logic board damage from moisture and a bad flyback transformer, and one with a vertical deflection issue that i haven’t dug too deeply into troubleshooting yet. and yet that mac se was thrown into a creek for 6 months and still worked. absolutely nuts
i don’t have an oscilloscope and i’m so lazy that i haven’t reflowed the analog board yet but look this guy is SO close to working, except the fucking vertical deflection
I’d definitely start with re-flowing the flyback’s solder joints, it looks like there’s a bit of an issue with the horizontal deflection as well, otherwise that line would be the full size of the raster horizontally.
Analog board might need to also be recapped as well?
i really, really wanna just move to fedi, since that means shitty site admins can’t wreck the whole service… but post discoverability and lifetime is important to me, and tagging over there is basically nonexistent. i love seeing people still coming across my art months later… i still get likes on the “are you tired of being human?” desktop bg or the tbh comic i made. there, you get a bunch of likes and then in a few days no one ever sees it again, because there’s no good way to sort “art post I worked hard on” from “shitpost.”
maybe i should move there for little shitposts and stuff that i don’t want to last, and keep my larger, important stuff on cohost?
i like tumblr. tumblr is everything i want out of social media. i want tumblr but not transphobic. cohost has different vibes
I keep saying, someone needs to make a mastodon fork that makes it feel more like tumblr. It’s clear that “making a new twitter” was the goal when it was designed, but the way people have made reddit-likes with activity-pub shows that a tumblr-like is totally doable.
I don’t think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything
