Deep, Meaningful Thoughts.

So I was looking at this post from Cute Overload (*Scowls* In person, I will not admit that I frequent this website) when it occurred to me to write about this profound question of life that has troubled me for many years:

Why are Japanese animated things so much cuter than American ones?

This is what stands out to me the most about American cartoons vs. Japanese anime -

1) Compare REAL BUNNY to BUGS BUNNY.
As you can see, the cartoonists who created Bugs Bunny anthropomorphized an adorable furry creature into a revolting, vulgar character with ugly, human-like body proportions and an irritating personality that would never be found in a real rabbit. Bugs Bunny is not round and cuddly like a real rabbit, nor does he exhibit delicate nibbling behavior - instead, he chews loudly with his mouth open and yells irritating catchphrases - "What's up, doc?" He's not like a rabbit at all!!! I dunno...I guess even though Bugs Bunny is super-annoying I still liked watching the cartoons for some reason - same with irritating characters like Tom and Jerry. I loved Tom and Jerry! Hooray for slapstick comedy!!!

2) Compare HUMAN BEING to SAILOR CHIBI MOON.
[Ehhhh sorry about the human being image, it's hard to find a generic human being sketch/picture that has clothing on, and I didn't want to use a picture of, like, a real human. -_-; (Also I swear I don't like Sailor Moon anymore, it was the first example that popped into my head!)] As you can see, Sailor Chibi Moon's features do not look very human at all. I would say that they are kind of animal-like. Especially the hair, which looks like rabbit ears.

So, to make some GROSS, UNFOUNDED GENERALIZATIONS - I think that in American cartoons and stuff, they tend to make everything more human-like, including the animals and talking furniture and other things, whereas Japanese stuff tends to make everything more like animals. (Does anyone else think this is true?)

Anyway - animals are way cuter than humans!!!

And even more cute than animals are primordial blobs with eyes.

Eew...actually I'm not so sure about that last one.

Uh, okay, I've been posting way too much lately. It's someone else's turn, this blog is really becoming the garbage dump of my brain. >.<;

More procrastination....

Meh...I really don't want to work on the presentation I have to give in my bio class tomorrow. It's a Powerpoint. D: So here's another bisoncomic:


I actually wonder why I didn't come up with this one earlier in the series...it seems like the most obvious thing to do with a comic about interspecies attraction. -_O

Never mind. Don't think about it too much.

Elephants

Haha...maybe I keep making these now for the (not-very-thrilling) thrill of watching the bisoncomics count go up, which explains why the recent ones have been of rather questionable quality:



Hrm...I think I might like this new look better where I draw the outlines on paper, scan it, and then fill in the rest with Photoshop Elements. The lines look a bit more natural, it takes less time, plus I won't get carpal tunnel syndrome and deteriorating vision from trying to draw detailed stuff on my miniscule tablet (should've bought the bigger one...) and staring at my monitor.

XD

More cookies! More more more!

So I was doing a kind of boring literature search for a paper that I have to write, and eating more cookies, when I got distracted and started to look for literature about happiness levels and eating habits. I think studies are pretty weird when they ask people to rate stuff about themselves, like the degrees of their food cravings and how content they are. I dunno...I tend to be pretty skeptical towards psychological studies, especially after having done some of those psych department surveys. :P

But anyway, I think if you graphed someone's cookie consumption versus their happiness level, you would probably get something like this:


Bleh. I've finished all the cookies that I like in the variety pack that I have, and the rest look kind of bland. I guess that's a good thing, since they're not so good for me.

Okay that's enough procrastination....

I like pens.

Yes, today I just felt like I needed to contribute to the overabundance of lame things that do some type of wordplay on the phrase "broken heart."

(And for the record, I'm not entirely sure when fibrin sealants are used, or whether they'd work on dead tissue.)

If jesus was a goat...

He might look like this...?



The first ever viable sheep/goat hybrid (2000). Check out the BBC article about it, it's pretty awesome. Apparently, it's really big, resistant to diseases, and super frisky!

Too many cookies.

In a random bout of depression, bison3 has accomplished the following things:

- Consumed 12 cookies. (140 calories/3 cookies * 12 cookies = 560 calories AAAAHHHHHHH)
- Devoured a third of a bag of jelly bellies.
- Realized that she probably should have majored in biomechanical engineering.
- Did her laundry, which consisted of only a few articles of clothing, but threw in some relatively clean sweatshirts and pants to make it feel like more.
- Watched her cell phone charging.
- Stared blankly at some frightening-looking equations on a homework assignment.
- Drew a bison comic that doesn't make a lot of sense.


(Why do I have this weird habit of talking about myself in third person?)

And once again, I am plagued by that awful feeling that there's something I've forgotten to do.
O_O