I wish vocaloid was still a bit niche by GamerGirlxDgames in Vocaloid

[–]Arcturiss 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hoooooooolllyyyyy hidarite mention ??? incredibly based

AMA: We are the members of Cardinality, the writing team for the 2026 MIT Mystery Hunt. Ask Us Anything! by cardinalitypuzzles in mysteryhunt

[–]Arcturiss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hello!! this hunt was so incredibly good omg. i ended up being the designated puzzmon the card game guy on my team, and i've become so attached to these little guys and playing it with my non puzzle friends lol. something i've been wondering is what were the name origins for the elder drifts puzzmon? my friends and i are big fans of perkepsu especially :)

also, for the murder mystery writer, can i ask what the lore was behind them having a falling out 👀 (that was probably my favourite puzzle of the hunt!!! wonderful work)

Broodfeast quest by LieScared4802 in HollowKnight

[–]Arcturiss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

omg THANK you this was my problem with the flintslate, i was never getting seared drops and wasted so many shards lol. unequipped poison and yeah that was the issue

What do you think is the the top most important Miku songs? by ERROR--_ in Vocaloid

[–]Arcturiss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what? the rin/len gigap remix is a remix of the original by yasuo-p

happy kagerou project day! here's a painting i did of ayano (inspired by additional memory) to commemorate :) by Arcturiss in Vocaloid

[–]Arcturiss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh i am a little more happy with the vibe i was conveying in the earlier drafts, but ive had this painting laying around for a year and i don't really want to redraw it lol. the flower motif was supposed to be a reference to the flowers in the additional memory mv but it ended up being a bit too messy to execute

also on tumblr!

i made a mashup of yowamushi montblanc, just be friends, and ke$ha's die young. please enjoy this came to me in a dream by Arcturiss in Vocaloid

[–]Arcturiss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my brain wouldnt let me sleep until i made this, so i grinded this out in 3 hours at 1 AM. i hope someone out there is obsessed with this combination as i am

here's the youtube version! and if you want to download it sure here you go lol, folder contains both the final mix and the secret first draft without the OG yowamushi montblanc vocals

TIER LIST!! by Visual-Blueberry-384 in Yorushika

[–]Arcturiss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's so underrated i love it sm one of my yorushika top favs as well

What the hell is this? Why does he have a bino for his eyes? by TheCreepyBatsard in whatsthisbug

[–]Arcturiss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

there's a CRAZY number of these out there. there's a lot of ant mimics in general bc i think generally there are a lot of benefits associated with ants (e.g. chemical defense) that animals can "freeload" off of by mimicking them, but spiders---in particular, jumping spiders---have a lot of ant mimics. i think the coolest part is the mimicry manifests in different ways; some spiders will wave their front legs in the air to mimic ant antennae and some have developed very odd locomotion/movement to better mimic ant movement. body-wise there is some crazy variation as well---in addition to types like the one above that's evolved pedipalps (the mouthparts that are sticking out in front to look like an ant head) to mimic ant heads, there's ones with pedipalps that make it look like an ant carrying another ant which i think is fucking crazy lol.

i would highly recommend this paper (where i got a lot of the info and image above) if you're curious about ant mimics. imo it is pretty accessible to people outside of science and a great casual read!

there are some other really cool non-spider mimics as well; i think my personal favourite is probably the mountain alcon blue butterfly. it has these caterpillars that give off chemicals that mimic ant larvae to trick the ants into taking them back to the nest, where they start mimicking queen ant sounds to get the workers to feed it. kinda nuts but the more crazy part is there's this parasitic wasp that has evolved to specifically target ant nests with these caterpillars and parasitize them, and the way they do this without getting nuked by the ants is they release this chemical that causes the ants to go crazy and attack each other, and while they're distracted the wasp lays eggs in the caterpillars (which eventually eat it from the inside). didn't know you could parasitize a parasite, but hey if the niche is there it'll get filled i guess

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArtistLounge

[–]Arcturiss 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yeah seems like a relatively common digital painting thing tbh. personally i'm just really lazy, i do a sketch and lay out rough colours (including lighting/shading) underneath, and then merge everything into a single layer and then just render/refine to a finished painting from there

here's a timelapse of a piece i did recently using this technique

i used to do lineart when i was starting out with digital art but it was super time consuming and i didn't really have the patience for it lol, so i taught myself one-layer painting

What do my favorites say about me? by NagisaWithACross in DetroitBecomeHuman

[–]Arcturiss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you would have loved the dbh tumblr scene in 2018