Aardman putting out just straight up weapons grade wholesome adorableness.

She did another one! Pperhaps even more delightful than the first.

(The first one: )

Over the past 6 months Pluffaduff has released a trilogy of full mashup albums, which is just a fucking bonkers amount of work to think about, with the last one releasing today and they are all extremely good. (With the obvious caveat that all mashup stuff has it's ups and downs and really depend on your relationship to the individual pieces the artist is pulling from as much as it does the final track itself.) That said, there's a few that I would legitimately say transcend the medium into masterpieces in their own right:

'One' is this magical tapestry of a million disparate elements pulled from decades of pop culture that all coalesce into this thing that feels so... unique? It's like a classical painting painted with ketchup, mud and truffle shavings and I just want to pick it apart and figure out htf it even works. And 'Free', especially as the last song of the project, is like the ultimate cathartic expression of a tremendous weight being lifted from the soul, and it was pretty fucking magical.

But there's so many other great tracks that range of masterpieces of editing and concept, to straight up shitposts, it's fantastic.

(I will say not safe for work, at least the first time through, standard hip-hop/rap/pop music sort of warnings apply to some them)

Fuck yeah makin stuff! Looking forward to seeing it all come together man

A barrage of fascinatingly bizarre choices that I am so psyched to see come together.

Thanks guys, it's been a long time coming without really being sure it was going to work, so it's good to know other people than me actually think it looks good Lots more to come, I'm pretty much in the phase of having everything built, so it's just running the shots through animation and rendering then I can get everything comped and put this thing to bed. Lots to go, but this was a big milestone.

This is just /delightful/.

Bit of a weird one, so Context for those that don't already know: There's a subreddit called Humanity, Fuck Yeah!, where people post their own sci-fi writing generally centered around the idea that optimistic potential of human nature in out future, or around the idea of humans as uniquely gifted in some way that gives us an advantage over the rest of the galaxy because of our human-ness. One of the big tropes is the idea of Earth as a "Deathworld". Basically, in the galactic sense, a place where no one would ever dare go because you will die, and die hard, and probably Die Hard 2 With a Vengeance too;; basically the galactic equivalent of Australia; and since humans evolved here and we just think of it as home, we are these terrifying hardy af killing machines that can survive basically anything.

So all that to say: There's one series on-going right now (They usually update with a new chapter every cpl weeks or so, but they've had to slow down because they're in college rn) called "A Job For A Deathworlder" that I got hooked on. The basic pitch is it follows the first human scientist to serve aboard an alien vessel, and follows his journey through navigating the culture shock of living amongst aliens on a spaceship, and navigating the stigma that comes with being a deathworlder, and then things get Complicated™. It's jam packed with really interesting and well done world building, with a lot of really fun ideas, but always manages to center the character relationships and does them really well and doesn't minimize the fact that these are all aliens with completely different ways of thinking and worldviews into the Star Trek-y humans by another name thing but celebrates the weirdness (and the headache's, tension and confusion that brings), and is (so far) telling a really fun story that I can't wait to see more of.

They're on Chapter 16 right now, with a few bonus short stories, although I'm a few chapters behind atm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/serie … athworlder

Nice dude! The design feels very Animal Crossing, but I don't know enough about Animal Crossing to know if it's an actual Animal Crossing or not. ...Animal Crossing.