Hi! I'm Miru. And this is a where I dump my silly doodles.
Probably going to be a LOT of fanarts and such, but you never know, there might be the one or other original thing among it, too.
Enjoy, and if you have a request, don't be shy, just ask =D
The Renaissance: when everyone was wearing silly hats and puffy sleeves.
Things I did today: Draw way too complicated BGs for fanart CAN YOU GUESS WHO it’s not that hard. The teal is not going to stay it’s just there so that you can see those awesome white stars because they are awesome.
And stuff.
So today I was procrastinating genuinely curious and wanted to find out why the Swiss don’t use that strange German letter, namely the “ß” (which I’ve learned that its also called “german B” in English, which is ridiculous because there is no b involved, like, at all) (for those who don’t know, it’s not a b, it’s a sharp s, or double s. Just so that we’re all on the same page).
Anyway. So the Swiss don’t use that letter, and I didn’t know why. Turns out, nobody does!!! How weird is that? A whole letter just going missing and nobody knows how that came to be.
There are, however, a few theories, and they are thus:
1°) The Swiss adopted the Antiqua typeface earlier than the other Germanic states who kept using Fraktur, and there was no ß for Antiqua for the longest time.
This theory is doubted because, well, it didn’t take THAT long for the ß to appear in this typeface, and anyway, there were a lot of publications in Switzerland that used Fraktur up to the end of the 1940ies, actually way longer than in Germany.
2°) It’s all because of the typewriter.
The Swiss had that little problem where they had to fit three languages onto one typewriter. Adding é, à, è and ç to the already existing extra-characters ö, ä and ü proved to be a tough nut and so they simply ditched the ß which could easily be replaced by the ss.
This is actually the most wide-spread explanation, but scholars suspect that the ß wasn’t all that important in Switzerland already by then because if it were, they’d have found a way to keep it, because they are good like that. Or something.
3°) Swissgerman doesn’t really need the ß-sound
The most scholarly explanation because LINGUISTICS FUCK YEAH but it’s kind of complicated and boring so let’s just boil it down to a “Switzerland talks weird and doesn’t care what you think” and move on.
So yeah, nobody knows, and nobody really cares enough to find a definitive answer. Basically, we just like long words with lots of esses.
END OF THE LESSON
ahah I keep finding old art, so up it goes, no mercy!
Done for an art exchange, around December 2010 and while I can def. see some improvement my current doodling has done compared to this, it’s still kind of sad how little improvement there is, all things considered.
But anyway.
I remember being the only participant in that exchange who never got anything back. *sadest violin in the BG*
I just found really old pictures from the HD of my old computer… and because I will never stop spamming people with edelweiss, here you go Tumblr, a pic that is over 1,5 years old. You’re welcome.
- Take a wild guess…
Just… going to reblog this from another blog when nobody’s looking.
Because it’s pretty silly, but it moves and that took a while 8D
/runs for the hills
I had the urge to draw something Star Ocean 3 related, so Nel it was, because I really really like Nel. I also like the idea of magic-tattoos.
WELP this is as finished as this picture is ever going to be I throw in the towel.
I like the concept and all, but the rest is pretty much just… all wrong. OH WELL LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES AND ALL THAT!But yeah. Helvetic Republic. All my feels go out to it. Because how desperate do you have to be to call your archenemy for help? And then getting it, too, and think you’re going to be okay, but you don’t know that your archenemy actually knew this was all going to happen because the other guy told him and basically you’re screwed either way, for many many years to come?
ALL MY FEELS.OH MIRU SHUT UP, THIS IS FANTASTIC, DON’T BE SO HARSH TO YOURSELF.
And oh, ohhhhhhh Helvetic Republic. That weren’t the happiest days for Vash. Roderich and Francis were two humongous dicks at that time, I’d like to punch them in their faces.
I WILL NEVER SHUT UPPPPPPPP
Okay, just to make sure that I’m not… fishing for compliments or anything haha, let me tell you why I think it’s a bit rubbish. First and foremost, this consists of two different pics, pasted together via Photoshop. The problem is, I somehow managed to pic two different papers or something, and the pencil strokes look so different from the one to the other it makes me cry. This could be easily fixed via digital inking though, so I’ll admit it’s not THAT bad. What’s really bad is that I waited over a month between the two parts and it shows, somehow. I don’t know how my stile managed to evolve/change in a mere month but there we are SOB.
Last but not least, the composition is a catastrophe. I should have stuck the two big ‘uns in the middle, to make some sort of pyramid-composition-thing to lead the eye or something, but noooo I wanted the Vashs too look at each other. Thanks to the fact that the other guys’ positions aren’t mirrored, it’s all awkward. ALSO the fact that this is not in colour makes the whole drapery a bit awkward (they’re supposed to be allll them flags but yeah anyway)
WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY IS that the author is probably always the harshest critic on their own stuff, but I think you are the nicest anyway and love you tons. ♥♥♥♥♥
WELP this is as finished as this picture is ever going to be I throw in the towel.
I like the concept and all, but the rest is pretty much just… all wrong. OH WELL LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES AND ALL THAT!
But yeah. Helvetic Republic. All my feels go out to it. Because how desperate do you have to be to call your archenemy for help? And then getting it, too, and think you’re going to be okay, but you don’t know that your archenemy actually knew this was all going to happen because the other guy told him and basically you’re screwed either way, for many many years to come?
ALL MY FEELS.
Dear Porty. I missed your birthday by a few hours, because I’m a horrible slacker.
Some SpaPort for you because you are the best Porty ever and anyway. Keep on truckin’ <3
So I’m working on the very last update of my webcomic Return to Eden, and it’s giving me feelings. Over 9 years of constant updating, with all the joy and all the sorrow that came with it.
So I thought hey, how did the main character evolve over these 9 years? And here it is. It’s actually rather fun to look at. Updating once a week for such a long time at least helps you to get a bit better in the art-department. I suppose 8D
So I’ll be honest here, I don’t really know what I wanted to do with this. Uh. First time “animating” something, if animating means tracing over a gif from Black Rocket Shooter ganked from somwhere on the internet =Ia
So yeah, the point of this is Halberds and drama. Uh. Also no glasses, as I imagine this being the first stages of the conflict so they’re still somewhat kidlets. (okay so I didn’t want to draw them sue me).
Halberds and drama.
Oh man, it’s been a while since I uploaded anything, I’m so sorry!
So here, have a messy sketch. There’s a mirrorpicture of France/Switz to come, because I will never shut up about the Helvetic Republic ever.
The whole thing will be coloured eventually, like in 10 years if I’m lucky.
- Are those people displeasing you?
- Uh
- I can eat them if you want
- Please don’t
Zurva and Mnemosyne. Zurva is actually supposed to look even wonkier, as she forgot how she’s supposed to ‘work’ altogether.
It’s not easy having such a large beast under your command. And she probably sheds like crazy, too.
“Say, are you alright? You’ve been acting really weird, lately.”
Headcanon says that before the fall-out, Roderich actually had to move to Vienna with the Habsburgs and that sucked and they missed each other very much and then the whole quarrel thing happened bluh bluh
