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great question :)
When i came up with the concept for Butterfly, the main thing i knew i wanted right away, besides the plot-relevant quirks like dimension hopping and all for one, was that i wanted something that physically altered his body in a way that was gross and painful. The initial inspiration for the story was my general dissatisfaction with villain deku fics, and noumu deku by extension. Most fics either make hime just a guy or a cutsie animal hybrid, but i wanted to take the inherent body horror further. I knew i didn’t want him to be a true noumu (functional, curated) but a botch job that was barely alive. We know that in canon, people aren’t really compatible with multiple quirks without serious mad science intervention, but we don’t know what that process is. I assume afo and the doctor would need to map out which quirks are and aren’t compatible. Then i thought about hox genes, the genes responsible for controlling where different parts of the body go. You can swap hox genes around in fruit flies and have them grow extra legs where the antennae should be. So what if two quirks relied on the same hox gene? What if you had two limbs haphazardly growing out of the same joint fighting for space? That’s how the idea of the double wings came about. Two cool quirks rendered unusable by being stacked on top of each other. Then i quickly added on the idea of Butterfly spider-walking with those broken wings ala Doc Oc from Spider-Man, both a frightening imagine, a painful experience for Butterfly himself, and a nod to Izuku’s creativity to think of an alternate way to use this broken feature, and his unrelenting determination to do this to himself despite the pain.
as for the other quirks, there’s two main waves. Buried in one of my notebooks somewhere is a list of quirks i came up with before i started writing the book. I think there’s about 50. Some of them appear in the fic but some of them didn’t, but i wanted to make sure i had a rough idea so i wasn’t just pulling random abilities out of my ass when i’d written myself into a corner. This first list was developed at the same time as the Butterfly outline, which was extremely detailed.
The second wave of quirks came about the same time i did a huge overhaul of the last couple chapters of Butterfly. I pretty much scrapped my original quirk line up for the finale and came up with a bunch of new stuff i thought would be scarier and more interesting in a fight scene. The main one of course being the deer skull. Butterfly’s initial design had deer antlers way back at the beginning, but i scrapped them because i thought it was too cliche. But by the time i got to the end, i was having a lot of fun and was way more confident as a writer, so i decided to bring them back in with a twist. Similar to the hox gene brain storm, i wondered what would happen if you transferred a mutant type quirk to someone with a standard human body. Butterfly stole the deer man’s quirk for his antlers, unaware that it would also mutate his skull. The reason the skull is exposed is because the bones were growing and shifting faster than his skin could accommodate, while his regeneration quirk tried to fight these changes as if they were a disease, thus the skull being lopsided. The image of a deer skull growing out of a person’s face was an something i came up with all the way back in high school as a piece of symbolism for a novel at the time. I was so happy when i realized i’d be able to include it literally.
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I want something springy, warm and colorful. I decided to make a butterfly.
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Хочется чего-то весеннего, теплого и красочного. Решила сделать бабочку.
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Animated Short: Substance and style
The nominees are:
General wisdom seems to be that Butterfly will win this award, and you can understand why. It’s a film about a Jewish Olympic swimmer who survived Auschwitz using a unique hand-painted oil-on-glass technique.
But it’s certainly not in the bag. The Girl Who Cried Pearls was the only one of the nominees that was also nominated for the Annie (although it lost). But it’s been quite some time since a stop-motion piece has won this Oscar (2008, I think?).
My personal favorite of the bunch was Retirement Plan, which was the shortest (at 7 minutes) and had the least remarkable animation style. So, despite having a broad philosophical message that could resonate with a lot of people and was easily digestible, it’s unlikely to get a lot of people to say, “I’m going to vote for this one.”
Forevergreen is the “cute” entry, though it is still heartfelt and captivating. The Three Sisters is funny and exquisite in its wordless storytelling. Almost all are available on YouTube and worth a look.
Who will win: Butterfly
But look out for: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Who I’d vote for: Retirement Plan
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Happy National Learn about the Butterflies Day
Butterfly facts:
- Butterflies live on a liquid diet. They drink the nectar from flowers. Their mouth acts as a straw and can curl and uncurl when needed. Some species also enjoy tree sap, rotting fruit, and animal dung.
- Butterflies can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
- Butterflies are insects; they have a head, thorax, and abdomen. They have 6 legs and 4 wings.
- Butterflies use their antennae to look for food and fellow butterflies.
- A Butterfly’s life cycle involves 4 stages: the egg, caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly.
- Butterflies vary in size. ( Source: Sandiego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)
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2026 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Live Action, Documentary, and Animated Short (Part 6)
Part 6. I’m almost out of this numeric hellscape. So many numbers…all I see is numbers…I can’t even remember how I started down this path. Let us count the ways, but how? All I can think is “six.” Has it always just been 6?
Here’s Part 1. Don’t forget Part 2. Part 3 is magical. I’ve never seen anything quite like Part 4. Part 5 will open your third eye and show you a wondrous universe of the…
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A Swallowtail Moment
ALTPhoto credit: Eleanor Chua.
A female swallowtail butterfly, called the Common Mormon because of its polymorphism, feeding on Panama Rose flowers in the Gardens by the Bay.
