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well, got bored during class, wrote a bit of a story-start thing, and thought I'd share it. it's plain bad in all aspects, and I'll probably forget it soon, but thought at least one of y'all might enjoy the concept.

if anyone wants to expand it, feel free.

“The Cycle”. “Ouroboros”. “The Creator’s Wrath”. People have way too many names for this thing, but nobody seems to know what it actually means. I’ll let you in on the secret, though, since I’m just so nice.

The world will end on the last day of this month.

And the next.

And the next…

And then, the next…

You get my point.

It’s a never-ending, self-fueling loop of calamity. Every 30 or so days, the temporal stability of this world goes haywire, and we get to experience all kinds of fun things and creatures. For a little example, if you go and walk near one of those moldy-looking Rifts outside on the wrong day, you get turned into what’s essentially a sentient ball of really unstable plasma. From that form, you’ll reform into one of those wretched little things we fight on the daily. A Lost Soul. 

They were probably once human. From what world, only the Fading King would know. Still, they’re way too numerous for us to handle, and come in about a thousand different unreasonably deadly forms. Call them monsters, call them the bug spray of the gods, but whatever you do, don’t face one unarmed. Yes, some might be small and practically catatonic, but they always travel in groups. And they’re way too smart for their own good. 

During the Day, which is what we call that fun holiday of a monthly event, they also get a tenfold boost to both power and number. No matter how much you prepare, there are only three ways for a settlement to survive that night. Overwhelming numbers, godlike skills in combat, or, and this one’s mostly luck-dependent, the highest degree of stealth. In my opinion the name’s kind of dumb, ‘cause the sun basically goes out for the entire 20 hours. You know, I lost one of my buddies just recently on one of these Days.

Awe to the Fallen. May she send you to rot in the fiery pits of whatever hell lies beyond. Anyway, he thought one of those Crawlers was easy prey, a potential meal or maybe he could even land a lucky gamble and get a Feedback Catalyst. What’s that? Well, technically it gives you an extra life, but I wouldn’t rely on them. Anyway, he went in for the kill, found a bit of meat and flax on the corpse, and when he was about to return to the squad, he got mauled by a murder of Soulwinders. Poor bastard was screaming like a banshee when I booked it out of there.

Who am I? Nobody important, at least to you. Just think of me as that weird starting companion that heals you from an injury so you can start the game from an unfamiliar perspective. Like in those Old World video-games. And one of us will die before that gets to change. So, welcome to hell. You won’t enjoy your stay.

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well, got bored during class, wrote a bit of a story-start thing, and thought I'd share it. it's plain bad in all aspects, and I'll probably forget it soon, but thought at least one of y'all might enjoy the concept.

if anyone wants to expand it, feel free.

“The Cycle”. “Ouroboros”. “The Creator’s Wrath”. People have way too many names for this thing, but nobody seems to know what it actually means. I’ll let you in on the secret, though, since I’m just so nice.

The world will end on the last day of this month.

And the next.

And the next…

And then, the next…

You get my point.

It’s a never-ending, self-fueling loop of calamity. Every 30 or so days, the temporal stability of this world goes haywire, and we get to experience all kinds of fun things and creatures. For a little example, if you go and walk near one of those moldy-looking Rifts outside on the wrong day, you get turned into what’s essentially a sentient ball of really unstable plasma. From that form, you’ll reform into one of those wretched little things we fight on the daily. A Lost Soul. 

They were probably once human. From what world, only the Fading King would know. Still, they’re way too numerous for us to handle, and come in about a thousand different unreasonably deadly forms. Call them monsters, call them the bug spray of the gods, but whatever you do, don’t face one unarmed. Yes, some might be small and practically catatonic, but they always travel in groups. And they’re way too smart for their own good. 

During the Day, which is what we call that fun holiday of a monthly event, they also get a tenfold boost to both power and number. No matter how much you prepare, there are only three ways for a settlement to survive that night. Overwhelming numbers, godlike skills in combat, or, and this one’s mostly luck-dependent, the highest degree of stealth. In my opinion the name’s kind of dumb, ‘cause the sun basically goes out for the entire 20 hours. You know, I lost one of my buddies just recently on one of these Days.

Awe to the Fallen. May she send you to rot in the fiery pits of whatever hell lies beyond. Anyway, he thought one of those Crawlers was easy prey, a potential meal or maybe he could even land a lucky gamble and get a Feedback Catalyst. What’s that? Well, technically it gives you an extra life, but I wouldn’t rely on them. Anyway, he went in for the kill, found a bit of meat and flax on the corpse, and when he was about to return to the squad, he got mauled by a murder of Soulwinders. Poor bastard was screaming like a banshee when I booked it out of there.

Who am I? Nobody important, at least to you. Just think of me as that weird starting companion that heals you from an injury so you can start the game from an unfamiliar perspective. Like in those Old World video-games. And one of us will die before that gets to change. So, welcome to hell. You won’t enjoy your stay.

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ok so obviously I usually don't say anything about my personal beliefs directly, but I feel like noting this down.

the new Trump administration thing is reminding me a lot of Covid times. I'm well aware the disease never went away, but my point is that people are getting far too comfortable ignoring the deaths of millions so long as it's not present in their day-to-day.

only a surprisingly small amount of people cared that Covid was doing all it was doing before they made people actually treat it like a pandemic. same today, not many who were'nt, well, at least smart enough to notice people elected a fucking dictator, cared before the stock market started crashing.

and this doesn't just worry me. it's plaguing my goddamn existence. it's more than just any single group of people. we, as a collective, are just losing humanity in ourselves by living in a hellscape every day, and in some, that's shown more directly than the others. so many bear so much hate in themselves, and don't know any healthy way to get it out. that's no excuse for what those people do or say, but it's a pretty good explanation, if I may. I sincerely hope at least some of us can stay even slightly sane in this.

that's my two cents, not adding a lot to the pile but at least it's out there now

and no, this isn't all I'd have to say. it's just something I had on my mind.

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oh dear

(referring to @real-shrine-maiden, aka the serious half of me, in this specific equation)

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if you're a nazi or terf and here it's not that you shouldn't interact, more so that you should kill yourself the millisecond your fingers leave the grease on your keyboard

this is a biased and opinionated take

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Hey. I'm saying this very gently in my friendliest tone. Some people (namely mentally, developmentally and intellectually disabled people) are just straight up not able to understand politics, and that's perfectly okay and not a moral issue on their part, so don't treat it like it is.

Some people may need you to explain it to them in a very simplified, easy to understand way so they can maybe get it, some people just won't be able to understand no matter how you word it and I need you to not blow up at them for it and think they're being "willingly obtuse and ignorant of the world they're living in" or whatever. Politics is a very complex and nuanced thing that nearly everybody is gonna explain differently and have wildly different opinions on what some words or stances actually mean or should mean. And some of us just simply can't deal with that and cannot be made to do so with just the right arguments and definitions.

I'm autistic (+ my schizophrenia makes my thinking very disorganized and sometimes incomprehensible which adds to that too) and I have a LOT of difficulty with understanding and learning these kinds of very complex and nuanced discussions, and a lot of the time I'm just not able to. And that's fine and doesn't make me stupid or not putting in enough effort or imply I'm "looking away" from all the problems in society. Can some of yall stop trying to make us feel guilty or even evil for not engaging in things we are not able to grasp well or at all

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Dehumanizing bigots is bad, not because I want to be nice to them, but because they are human beings and they serve as a reminder that anyone is capable of evil ideation and action. Violent bigots are not fundamentally different beings from you. They are human beings, who have developed a reactionary and destructive belief system due to their circumstances combined with their biases. In a different timeline, that could've been you. Anyone can be radicalized. Nobody is immune to propaganda, not even the person reading this.

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A comic based on this poem

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"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

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the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

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curiosity

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walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

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meet my 7 week old HUMAN CHILDREN Mr Butter Biscuit and Skittles

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how do y'all even do coding

like all I see are these walls of code doing some impressive ass stuff

and then there's me, crying over Python

anyway here's a screenshot I took while browsing psp roms