Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source
But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?
WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT “STAGE NINJA” WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS
AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.
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vindicar asked: Oh, lookie who's here! =D
When doing something, do you hum or sing under your breath?
If yes, is it something particular, or you just make it up as you go?
While extremely rare, from time to time I MAY hum something. As to what it is? Who knows.
aires163 asked: What made you stop RPing on tumblr?
Now that’s something I don’t really know myself. Partially, I got kinda burned out on tumblr as a whole, too many people I enjoyed started to reblog all type of SJW shit and such (even those that laugh at SJW’s made me cringe from just seeing how stupid those people are).
Another reason was a few assholes that kinda ruined the whole experience to me, RP wise. I honestly preffer to just keep RPs private, on Skype and such.
Anonymous asked: You play video games? If so what?
Of course I do. As for what… well, single titles wise I would run out of tumblr space (not really), so I’d rather go over genres. The one I can honestly say I’m really good at, and in a way is my favorite, are platforming games, both 2D and 3D. Hell, Yooka-Laylee is the first Kickstarter campaign I actually backed (even tho I didn’t play Banjo-Kazooie myself (I do own it tho… bloody broken N64), I did play Conker’s Bad Fur Day).
From other genres I play it’s often action games (Assassin’s Creed series, Prototype, Bayonetta (have it downloaded on Wii U, didn’t play it yet tho)), RPGs (Mass Effect series, Witcher), FPS/TPS (No, NOT Battlefield or CoD, not touching those. But, GTA series, TF2 some time ago and such yes), some action-horror games (some is an understatement, I pretty much only played Dead Space games, and a bit of newer Resident Evil games), a racing game here and there (GRID, Mario Kart 8), logic games (my phone is FULL of those, also Pokemon Shuffle on my 3DS), and a series that is pretty much a category on it’s own, Pokemon.
Now, I could go on and on about what genres I play, so I’d rather go about it like this: I can play practically every type of game, even sports games and such. But I do try to avoid playing any strategy, real time or not, games. I just suck at them. There were only two games of this genre I was any good at, an that’s Star Wars: Empire at War and World in Conflict.
Anonymous asked: Wait you have sketches FBLMod hasn't published!? GIVE US.
Ask him, I am not at liberty to publish anything he didn’t publish on his tumblr.
Anonymous asked: Why not alter her color at all then? At first glance its confusing.
Short version: My OC, my rules
Longer, more serious version: Like I said, she originally was created as a female version of Pewny. She even got a pic or two before I decided to make her a separate character. So I simply didn’t want to change how she looks.
