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Is no one else gonna mention this synergy? I thought this is tumblr

the bionicle fandom after learning that advance wanted to make the male inika gym dudebros who all lusted after hahli whose character only existed to motivate the guys to be the one to save the universe so she'd be impressed with him

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Can I reanimate my artistic drive and solve burnout that way?

If you need info on what these do, you can learn about them on Bioniclesector01.

Please reblog and state the reason for your choice, and remember to name the mask you picked.

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

(Except, like, not well)

djkaktus' entry - The Edge of the World One crosslink (SCP-1867), three collapsibles, no offsets No GOIs, only pre-existing character in the article is Lord Blackwood, however one dr. Ivan Mann is featured, and while he's different enough to Everett, a familiar relation isn't out of the question.

Anomaly detailed is the Edge of the World. Earth, as is commonly known, is round, and while one typically expects round objects not to have edges, SCP-8000 resembles one such edge - a giant edge in south Pacific beyond which exists nothing but the void. Of note is that the place isn't a pocket dimension or extra-spacial, as GPS work and one could freely send drones and vehicles in and out of SCP-8000

Well, somewhat freely - there's a detailed procedure to get to the Edge, which, if not followed, leads to certain demise. It will also mess up any airborne vehicle, rendering seafaring vessels as the only way to safely get to SCP-8000.

On the Edge of the World, there's an island, with a tower/lighthouse being the only structure and a clockwork automaton being the sole inhabitant. The island is surrounded by ship wrecks and pointy rocks which, while menacing, are thoroughly non-anomalous

The island's tower is a cobbled mess of different architectural styles, ranging from ancient Roman style all the way up to 19th century fixtures and everything in-between. Inside is an oil lamp/reflector lighthouse fixture and a library with journals in a great number of different languages. Clockwork automaton says they're from prior tenants/keepers, and that the journals are augmented for longevity

Following the description are addenda that describe various accounts of people who accidentally stumble across SCP-8000 and the island with the tower, excerpts of library's journals and interviews with the clockwork automaton and SCP-1867, the latter of which evidently found out SCP-8000 on his own, some time prior to his containment, and catalogued the anomaly in one of his journals. Of note is that Lord Blackwood, usually boisterous and grandious in his chronicles, is uncharacteristicly laconic and reserved about SCP-8000. When questioned why, Blackwood says that the anomaly made him feel a deep emptiness, as though the world had become much smaller than 1867 previously thought.

After that there's an excerpt from one of the island's previous keepers, detailing the departure of the old keeper before him. The excerpt is rather solemn, if not grim, and one can only presume that after the old keeper had gone to the waves, the new one was left in solitude for a rather long time

Finally, the last addendum is an interview between Ivan Mann and the Clockwork Automaton. She recounts, among other things a story of her friend with whom the two became the new island keepers. Presumably, the Automaton wasn't always robotic and speculates that once, she might've even been human, based on how her friend treated her. Regardless, after she'd been rebuilt, the two came to study the journals in the island library, all the way until the robot's friend came to a realization that he'd become too old to read further. Automaton tells Ivan that he just walks off the island's pier towards the edge of the world, but instead of falling down into the waters and being dragged away into the void, he walks on air as though on land, moving into the distant sunset.

Personally, I found it to be an oddly melancholic scip that, at least as far as I can tell, isn't typically Kaktus' style.

Tl;dr: The edge of the World, kinda like in 2003 Sinbad. Just before the World stops, there's an island with a lighthouse/tower/library thing that collects journals of everyone who came to the island and decided to stay and keep watch. Most everyone who comes feels melancholic, including Lord Blackwood, though it's hardly an anomalous effect and more just the feeling you get when you're faced with an Edge of the World.

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

(Except, like, not well)

S D Locke's entry - The Age of Endless Night One collapsible, a few crosslinks (SCP-3125 and SCP-2316 mentioned in passing, SCP-999 and SCP-096 are... featured? They're not a 1:1 representation, but the links are there), and there's no GOIs or well-known SCPF characters

The document isn't structured like a standard SCP file, as in, it doesn't have containment procedures, per se. In fact, the anomaly in question is to be stolen - the opposite of contained - and delivered to the local equivalent of O5 council. The clinical tone is mixed together with a fantasy victorian-esque style writing, and while there are some general strokes in common, it's unclear where and when things are taking place, as well as how the universe of TAoEN connects to the SCPF we know and love. Subjectively, it feels similar to a mix between Bellerverse Canon, Daybreak 001 proposal and one of the SCP-6500 paths (of note, the latter two are written/co-written by Locke)

The anomalies detailed are four items belonging to one Lady Hylda. In order of appearence (and presumably importance), there's a moonlight scepter with healing properties, a circlet of eyes with telepathic abilities, a vestment with a unknown powers but a notable five-pointed star emblazoning, and a piece of scale of remarkable durability against physical and magical threats. All four are located in the castle that once belonged to aforementioned Lady Hylda. Local O5 equivalent ideally wants all four, but the most important is the scepter.

A great majority of the article consists of what would be, in SCPF terms, probably dubbed a Retrival Log - an unnamed mercenary is tasked with breaking, entering and stealing the artifacts. With him is a beastmaster - a man capable of projecting his senses onto animal familiars, namely, a bat. It is through the eyes of this bat that the log is percieved, with the beastmaster themselves writing things down as they happen.

The retrival log is interspersed with various files surrounding anomalous phenomena in the vicinity of the castle. First of these is of the Radiant, a type of immortal flesh creature that feels rather familiar to those found in Daybreak canon, though this time the source seems to be the scepter and not the ever-present sun. The Radiant are all over the castle and are plenty around it. The mercenary sneaks on the roads when they are ambushed by one of the flesh monsters. A short scuffle happens before it is intervened by a man with a sack on his face. Crosslink suggests him to be the Shy Guy, or at least a version of him, and neither the mercenary, the bat or the flesh creature fancy looking at him, choosing instead to simply run past (I don't blame them)

Several more flesh cretures are fought off and/or escaped by the mercenary before he gets into the castle walls, where he finds the next anomaly - SCP-999, known here as Monkling, an innocent-looking sentient orange growth with devious mind and illusory abilities. Notably, while 999 is strictly benevolent in SCPF universe, Monkling in 8000 file is depicted as growing on corpses, which probably isn't a good sign. Monkling attempts to chat with the mercenary, but the latter pays it no mind and explores the castle tunnels by themselves for an hour before stumbling onto another Monkling. The orange goop successfully tricks the mercenary into activating a trap and almost kills him, but the bat-familiar of the beastmaster manages to save his companion.

Final addendum break describes Lady Hylda - a healer of royal status, who has kept the entire land healthy by herself. The addendum details Hylda's kind and generous personality, her achievements and most importantly, her relationship with a mer-kin member called Mirlethe, the latter falling in love with Hylda, the two marrying and subsequently getting attacked by other mer-kin. Prejudice and stuff

On the courtyard of Lady Hylda's castle, the sight isn't pretty - literal bloodshed, signs of violent struggles, if not an outright siege. Most bodies were claimed by the Radiant and taken away, although one remains - suspended by a fishhook is the mutated radiant body of Mirlethe.

As the two intruders explore the grand hall of the castle, more carnage can be seen, mostly dried blood and weapons both mer-kin and human. No sign of the lady herself in the halls or the throne room, so the mercenary makes their way to Hylda's personal chamber, where they find a body, laying on the bed, with a sheet covering it fully. Weeping.

Mercenary attempts to remove the sheet, the weeping stops and in a moment all hell breaks loose. Hylda's misshapen body attacks the thief, revealed to be fused to the four items initially detailed at the start of the article. The mercenary is attacked again and again, and while they fend off Hylda with a sword and a shotgun, the serpentine body of Hylda crashes the mercenary through a wall and they both fall out on the courtyard, where Hylda's eyes are drawn to the corrupted corpse of her groom.

Overwhelmed by emotion, Hylda lifts down the undying remains of Mirlethe and "heals" him with the moonlight scepter... except it doesn't go well. The two are fused into a toad-like creature, which immediately attacks the mercenary with renewed vigor, but the thief gets lucky and strikes down the beast, severing off the healing scepter with his sword, then cleaving the creature's head in half. The thief and the beastmaster take the scepter and depart.

Except the mercenary doesn't fancy going to the O5 equivalent and runs off with the scepter. Their fate is presently unknown

Tl;dr: Four magical items and a story of how a mercenary retrieves them, with narrative style similar in vibes to When Day Breaks and SCP-6500. The story features some anomalies, but not in a way you remember them, which suggests some shenanigans, but I'm not certain which exact kind I'm looking at here

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

(Except, like, not well)

DrClef's entry - Her Red Right Hand Protects Us 6 offsets (I took the time to save them on Waybackmachine), several collapsibles, a number of crosslinks to pre-existing articles, including SCP and GOC articles, primarily featuring SPC-1764 (also Clef's work, notably unrelated to Shark Punching Center) Featured Groups: GOC; Serpent's Hand and Chaos Insurgency mentioned in passing

Boy howdy I didn't expect Clef to return First offset is a simple login screen that shows a RAISA message, informing people that there's some informational corruption going on. That will become apparent

Second offset is a significantly corrupted SCP file, detailing number of doorways that lead to a parallel dimension, first seen in the file SPC-1764 (brief summary: a metal disc that is connected to two worlds and swaps information about it so that we get information about SPC-1764 as described the DARD of the Unified Empire, and DARD get the SCP-1764 as described by us). Doorways are embued with radiation (regular and thaumic) when active and sometimes lets through dangerous thaumic entities that are difficult to get rid of. As such, doorways are to be deactivated and destroyed whenever one appears, and any entities are to be neutralized.

Third offset is a Celestial Archive of the Covenant of Illyriel file. This also details the same doorways, though seemingly from the side of the Unified Empire. Unexpectedly, Celestial Archive is also actively working towards deactivating the doorways, as well as stopping anything potentially harmful from being released into the SCPF universe. They also seem to be at odds with DARD and the Unified Empire, using epitets like foul and forbidden, as well as calling their leader a tyrant (though notably these are striked through). Covenant of Illyriel seem to be the "good guys"

For every good guy, though, there's a villain, to which the fourth offset leads us. The article, written by DARD of the United Empire, reads less like a factual file, containment procedure or anything of the sort, and more like a propaganda piece. It details the same doorways, how to activated them, as well as the history of SCP-1764 and the harm that came along with it. Notably, because SCPF was able to learn of militaristic intent of DARD, and decided to strike first by utilizing cognitohazardous and interdimensional phenomena, including SCP-106, SCP-426, SCP-571, weaponized amnesia (whether linked to 055 and/or 3125 is unclear) and weaponized depression (no idea, could just be a memetic agent). DARD didn't like this at all, so they declare war against SCPF, causing a group of benevolent entities to split off from DARD and form the Covenant of Illyriel

Fifth offset is, strangely, a GOC file, detailing the doorways, how deactivate them and how to combat whatever crawls out. It's not entirely surprising that GOC would discover the doorways, but it seems odd that they would also be affected by DARD and their wrath. Regardless of how, they got caught in the crossfire and Illyriel herself catches them up to speed. This offset is where most of information on what residents of DARD universe physically are - humanoids with pale-blue to dark-blue skin, hair ranging from white to black, eyes that glow in the dark similar to cats, and bodies that exhibit large quantities of radiation. DARD residents are supernaturally strong, fast and have thaumic abilities far in advance of a regular human baseline. Coupled with celtic/germanic iconography used on the doorways themselves, seems like we're dealing with Norse mythology's Dark Elves.

Sixth and final offset circles back to the SCP Foundation's original file (second offset) for the doorways, however this time it lack any data corruption, such as in the addendum and footnotes. More curiously, there's a collapsible at the end of the file that has a quote from Paradise Lost, as well as DARD/Unified Empire/bad guys logo. The quote ends with a crosslink to Chaos Insurgency hub, suggesting that DARD became a lesser between the two Dark Elf movements and became equivalent to a chaotic troublemaker organization in their universe, not too dissimilar to CI.

I know Clef is known for using hiddent 0 size text in his articles, I haven't had time to check for those here (or other two articles)

Tl;dr: A trans-dimensional anomaly triggers a war between humans (SCPF) and dark elves (DARD). Some dark elves weren't keen on the slaughter and splintered off from the DARD, forming an archive of their own and also opposing the DARD. DARD, pressured from both sides, lose the war, becoming little more than a Chaos Insurgency-esque threat to either SCPF or the benevolent dark elves.

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

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Rounderhouse's entry - THE GEARS OF TIME No offsets, no collapsibles, one crosslink (not wholly relevant, but provides a narrative parallel) - what you see is what you get Characters involved: Dr. Agatha Rights and Dr. Charles Gears

Item is a safe-class sword that changes shape at random intervals. If touched by two people, the sword releases an electromagnetic pulse of varying strength, depending on who's touching the blade. No clear correlation is found, yet.

Agatha Rights is inspecting the sword when Charles Gears arrives. The two discuss the sword briefly before the subject changes to the two doctors' relationship (notable, this entry shares the author and the canon of MEMENTO MORI SCP-001 Proposal, where Rights and Gears are married). Rights raises concerns, with Gears' closed off and emotionless attitude making him seem and feel distant. The two accidentally touch the sword while they're talking, causing a pulse so large that it causes massive power failure and several containment breaches throughout the site. The doctors are knocked unconscious

Bulk of the article comprises of various historical scenes, featuring a passionate soldier (Knight-Errant, Mamluk and Skjaldmaer), a noblewoman (Lady, Cariye and Freyja), whom the warrior protects on their journey together, and a much more stoic, cold warrior (Black Knight, Janissary and Huskarl), usually there to remind the former soldier to keep his distance from the noblewoman. Pretty confident these are meant to be dreams.

Symbolism kicks in as the soldier and noblewoman travel together, looking to complete a given scene's quest, meanwhile exploring the soldier's feelings and insecurities, related to the noblewoman and the circumstances surrounding the "rift" between the two. The stoic warrior doesn't help, since they usually glare daggers at the soldier.

In one specific scene, the soldier gets to complete the quest by delivering the noblewoman to a king she's meant to marry. The king is still and utterly silent, and upon some less-than-gentle prodding from the soldier, is revealed to have the same visage as the soldier. For the record, so does the stoic warrior. The soldier kills his two reflections and the vision ends with an embrace between him and the noblewoman

Agatha Rights and Charles Gears are awoken by MTF members and informed of the situation. Before the doctors are evacuated, Gears tells Rights he loves her in a detailed and genuinely heartwarming manner, notably uncharacteristic of the typical stone-cold demeanor of the typical portrayals of Gears. Rights reciprocates and the article ends.

Tl;dr: Shapechanging couples therapy sword with only a slight side effect of causing electrical disturbances and, occasionally, containment breaches. But that's fine as long as Rights knows Gears loves her

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

(Except, like, not well)

Wikidot still hates Russia, and I while I can't vote/participate in SCP-8000 contest, I still want to interact with it. So here's a semi-daily series of abridges I'm gonna make for each 8k entry, whenever I finish reading one (Bear in mind, I work fulltime). Entries aren't gonna be covered in any specific order, and with 151 unique entries there's zero chance I'm gonna be able to cover everything.

Placeholder/Cimmerian/Blank/Billith - Eight-Ball Two off-sets, a few crosslinks, fewer collapsibles Relevant GOIs: MC&D, Serpent's Hand, as well as some mentions of MCF

Beginning is a separate off-set to the rest of the article, and outside of introducing us to the smug arsehole that is Director Ryoto Hishakaku, also informs the readers that 8000 is, in fact, stolen

Second off-set begins with a rather techno-babbly special/converse containment procedures and description, typical of Placeholder McD. In essence, the object is a magic eight-ball on thaumic "steroids", acting as a powerful predictive supercomputer with enough precognition to look into people's consciousness and predict any inquiries before they are voiced, among other things. An incredibly useful artifact, which is why when O5 catches the word of the ball being stolen by an unknown party and chew Director Hishakaku out for letting it get stolen. No one is happy

Except for one Dr. Danill Sokolsky. He informs the council that the item can be retrived, as he has a contingency scheme, and, provided the right people, can get it relatively easy.

The right people are as follows: Ethics Committee member Dr. Cimmerian, Researcher Harknesss (who I only know as Billith's character with very high CRV), Dr. Wettle of SCP-7000 (negative luck sink), Dr. Moncier (I've not done my homework, I don't know who she is), Dr. Placeholder MCD (Esoteric Polymath, proficient in pataphysics), as well as Agent S. of MC&D (an inventor/creator of anomalous spy and infiltration tech)

Oh, and Hishakaku is there. About 20% of the article is spent dunking on him, I'd be remiss if I didn't do it a few times

Bulk of the article is spent covering an infiltration into the Wanderer's Library in search of the eight-ball. In particular, there's some fun interactions between the characters and their surroundings in the Library's Casino (read: they wreak havoc), find a gigantic place under the Wanderer's Library (aptly named Underlibrary), which stores, among other things, every book from every lost non-anomalous library as well as a talking Lighthouse of Alexandria.

They also awaken the serpent. The Serpent. The One after which the Hand is named after. That Serpent. Chaos ensues.

Wettle's bad luck ruffles Casino's feathers by making every Casino Goer win absolute jackpots, Agent S turns out to be a reality bender, affiliated with a number of other benders calling themselves House of Stars (I've not done my homework) and quickly dashes away, Cimmerian gets transported back to Ancient Egypt, eight-ball in hand, while the remaining group is reprimanded by the Casino and Librarians for causing a mess.

In time, everything is fixed, including damage to the library, as well as Cimmerian teleported back into an appropriate era, still with the eight-ball, and all is well... Except it went missing again, because of course it did.

Thanks to Cimmerian, Hishakaku ultimately gets demoted (which is immensely satisfying, considering events of 6488 and 7579) and while the foundation doesn't have their magic ball, they do, however, get rather cinematic footage of events surrounding the sentient eight-ball, seemingly made by Agent S. herself, including final scenes of the two on a beach

Tl;dr: A sentient ball of immense magical and clairvoyant powers goes missing. Six foundation researchers, Type Green MC&D agent and That Arsehole from SCP-6488 go to the Wanderer's Library to retrieve it. They trash the place, get one of their own sent back in time, temporarily retrieve the eight-ball only to lose it again not seconds later.

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Was wondering about some German SCP article translations and stumbled across a thing called Underrepresented Language Incubator on the SCP-INT website.

Admirable beyond doubt to actually have a place where enthusiasts may translate their favorite articles into languages that haven't quite made it to an official branch yet, one has to wonder: Who are the madlads translating stuff into... let me check my notes

Standard Galactic Alphabet?? Mad props

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Ah, so that's how it is... That memeplex really do be going places. The title makes sense now

Still, if the only reason why 7555 wasn't featured in admonition is because It features a repeat antagonist, then so does 6820, so I'm really not sure what the deal was. The sole other discrepancy is that the anomaly isn't made by SCPF, but the rest of the vibes check out.

Love TINAD references btw

Halfway through SCP-7555 and I only now notice that I'm not reading an admonition article. How come? The whole thing is heavy with admonition vibes, including the tiny consistent details like the name of the article being BOLD AND ALLCAPS'd, even if you can't really see it.

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Halfway through SCP-7555 and I only now notice that I'm not reading an admonition article. How come? The whole thing is heavy with admonition vibes, including the tiny consistent details like the name of the article being BOLD AND ALLCAPS'd, even if you can't really see it.

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I've waited entirely too long to read the rest and elected to start over, finishing the whole article within a single evening on last little bits of caffeine and glucose before going to work tomorrow.

Before I got through the whole installement, my reaction would be pure exacerbation, the likes of "tf you mean it just happens". Having gotten through Existential Abatement, I can most certainly confirm, it does, indeed, happen and it does, in fact, go through "fuck around, find out" cycle.

This article reached levels of circling back to itself that shouldn't be possible. It's like an ouroboros and a hydra had a lovechild, except the serpent in question was compososed entirely of magic, trash, magical trash and decisions so poor, it got a timeline bureaucratically severed from the rest of the multiverse.

New admonition article just dropped and it deals with On Guard 43 canon, which I still haven't read outside of SCP-6500. I'm also going through Rounderhouse's Redtape at the moment, meaning I'm gonna commit a furious cocktail of two pretty grand series...

What's the worst that can happen?

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I'm on ~40% of the article, my head already hurts. How have things gone awry this badly this early? This was meant to be a magical trash disposal, how have they blinked a site and a nexus out of existence?? The length of the article suggests that I'm nowhere near the culmination, but how much worse can the situation get???

New admonition article just dropped and it deals with On Guard 43 canon, which I still haven't read outside of SCP-6500. I'm also going through Rounderhouse's Redtape at the moment, meaning I'm gonna commit a furious cocktail of two pretty grand series...

What's the worst that can happen?

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New admonition article just dropped and it deals with On Guard 43 canon, which I still haven't read outside of SCP-6500. I'm also going through Rounderhouse's Redtape at the moment, meaning I'm gonna commit a furious cocktail of two pretty grand series...

What's the worst that can happen?

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#laketober, epilogue - a collection of my favorite drawings over the month

So, not everything has worked out. Energy is hard to come by these days, but I still feel happy with a fair few of the drawings I made during last october, to the point I'd be content to view them as separate pieces.

I have a lot of plans going forward, including but not limited to at least one story I can't get out of my head. Stay tuned

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#laketober, part 30 - The Day of The Lake

May or may not be the last picture for laketober. Hopefully, not actually the last one, cuz that would be ending on a rather sad note.

Jacob Eilander isn't my favorite out of the Rusty Lake protags, but getting burned alive isn't something to wish upon people, regardless of how much I care about them

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#laketober, part 29 - Mr. Owl

Did a human version of Mr. Owl, since both of the laketobers in the past I drew him as an Owl. Honestly, I like this quite a bit.

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#laketober, part 27 - Rebirth

October is coming to a close and I'm making one last dash towards completing as many things as I can. Meanwhile, here's a drawing of Toa Matoro being reborn as a Toa Ignika. Neither design is canon, as this Matoro is essentially a taller version of his Kolhiitoran self, and Ignika himself is also based more on a toa of Psionics' colorscheme than what it had in 2008. Still, I love how this turned out