#// wtf was i trying to get out who knows

[puppppppppy]

eos pt. 1

[smrtnik07]

i havent drawn anything worth posting in a while hi ^__^ erm..... are texans always this strange and unusual?

[psychomusic]

oc time again! + her town & culture (heavily inspired by pre-roman italic populations)

she is suri sauthon. her story is linked to my swtor imperial agent, tar'x, but most of her life except for the one year away where she meets him, is spent in a town in the mountains of mirial.

despite mirial being cold and desert, and many cities developing underground, her town flourishes thanks to a force nexus, venerated in the form of an ancient, sacred, alive crystal. the ecosystem of that mountain depended on what "the horned crystal" was capable of giving them, but mirialans couldn't live off of that alone, so they developed trade and some rudimental technology, even if oftentimes it was bought thanks to the highly profitable trade of a plant used to make medicines that slowed down aging and had overall healing properties.

note: everything that's generated by this nexus has these healing properties BUT they have to be processed, except for those who bathed in the waters of the cavity under the crystal - the "real" nexus, but not the worshipped one. the waters were sacred but they were not thought to be miraculous, unlike the crystal, who instead was thought of as the keystone of the ecosystem: without it, everything would fall apart (and that is partially true: the cavity was the "real" nexus but thanks to the crystal, also strong in the force, the properties were spread all over the mountains). those who bathed in the cavity's waters - so, all of the town, who had a sort of baptism there - could eat the plant, make whatever food with it, and not only that plant, but everything generated by the nexus, that, again, had similar properties. this allowed people to live up to normal life-spans without advanced medicines or, much, really. to those who didn't live there, though, after the processing, had incredible effects, slowing down aging - for those who took it regularly - and making people able to live up to half a century more than the average]

originally, there were four tribes of nomads that lived thanks to horned farm animals that decided to settle down into one bigger town and other smaller settlements, to live off of transhumance. this division of the tribes stayed into the political and social organization: every person belonged to one tribe specifically, and had slightly different rituals and culture. for examples, each tribe had their own priests and healers, with different techniques and traditions. the town, tho, was guided by a group of people in the high priesthood, a position you could reach only by having earned the trust of all tribes. those high priests had many roles: they guided the people into sacred processions common to all the tribes, they managed the trading with outsiders, they did the maintenance of the temple of the summit (the one that functioned as casket to the crystal) and created a special liquid to offer the crystal that helps it grow.

this particular temple was important because 1. it was very visible, from every angle of the town, and it became an important identity symbol; 2. it stored the venerated horned crystal; 3. it had the altar where sacrifices were made for the crystals. that altar had a hole connected to the cavity, that allowed the liquids to reach the underground; 4. it had various symbols: statues representing each tribe + the high priesthood, and typical mirialan tattoos carved into the wood of the trees that served as columns for the temple, symbolizing 8 values that who dared to enter HAD to have; 5. it was on the way to an important lake (called "mother lake" because the lake the town was built around to depended on the waters of that other lake) where they traveled to in important processions; 6. it was said that a the wizard who unified the tribes made it with its magic, making the plant grow to hold the temple's roof. this wizard was, actually, a force user, obv.

BACK TO HER THOUGH: she's daughter of one of the high priests, who was in charge of managing the trades with outsiders, and lives in a house on the mountains with her mother and him. her parents are from different tribes (that's one of the things that earned him trust from the 4 tribes): when a child is born from two different tribes, they don't pick one to allign to, but they're usually linked automatically to the one with more relatives in it (in her case, the father's tribe: she had many uncles and aunts on his side while her mom only had one sister).

later, though, she got quite tied to her mother's tribe due to a mysterious illness that only her mother's tribe healer was able to cure. she spent 4 years (from 10 to 14 years old) living with the healer and learned her secrets. to better study, she wrote them down. when she returned home, she studied to become a priestess with her father. at 22 (the average age: you can't become priest before your 20s), she was supposed to take a test and become a priestess, but the healer of her mother's tribe died and the tribe asked her to take her place. she couldn't technically do that, but both tribes estimated both her and her parents and she was allowed to become both. she then decided to try to become a high priestess, and became one at 25 (a quite young age). being part of the council, she tried to convince the various tribe healers to unite their knowledges and write them down, and eventually made it. healers still remained tribe based but they now had an "upper, inter-tribe level" similar to high priesthood.

years later, the sacred horned crystal is stolen from the temple by some Hutt mercenaries looking for a profit. given the trust she has earned from all the tribes and the fact that her father is the high priest that deals with outsiders (and she's been hearing stories and advice about it since she was little), she is the one tasked with getting it back. without the growing crystal, the keystone to their ecosystem, the village would have lasted only a few years. in hrr quest, she meets imperial intelligence agent tar'x laran and, as they "solve the mystery" and fight to have it back, they get closer. they'll get married and have a daughter, Vegoia (who's the only one who actually will get to the plot of my story. this was all background)

[deadpoetsandlivinglegends]

Results are in:

Scrooge outfit: Neil, Todd, and Cameron

Heart Boxers: Knox, Charlie, and Pitts

Pink robe: Meeks and Keating

I will forever be indebted to anyone who draws fanarts of them in these outfits

[asthedeathoflight]

Was going to make a post about how when Swan is counting off all the Warriors in Woodlawn Cemetery she doesn't do it in roll call order but she does put Ajax and Rembrandt right next to each other, which would indicate theyre standing near one another (when u are obsessed with a ship which is not actually real u gotta take what u can get) but I went back in the lyrics and Swan actually DOES say their names in roll call order BUT she swaps herself for Cleon. Diabolical. This fucking album man.

[washed-up-wurmcoil]

Matt mercer before Ashton tries absorbing the shard: these elemental titans... they long to be together... what was worse than their imprisonment was their separation... <looks at the guy playing a character whose entire backstory is surviving things that should have destroyed them> but a vessel that tried to contain both of them might be destroyed...

Matt afterwards: you idiot you stupid fucking idiot how fucking dare you. You're not getting anything from surviving your 10 round ordeal and I'm docking your con.

[kingflups]

Ooooh how could I be so silly! Obviously Chris starts disrespecting women because he has amnesia

[m4gp13]

you know what, while we're at it I might as well talk about the tartarus ethan au

The main gist is that Kronos was just really pissed about the betrayal thing and when he opened up that hole in the ground, he wasn't just sending Ethan to go splat on a pavement, he was sending him straight down to Tartarus. Luckily, Ethan landed in the Phlegethon so his body shattered on impact and then immediately got fixed up again. He stays in Tartarus for a full year, during which he survives by masking his scent with war prizes from the monsters he kills and from just sticking close to the Phlegethon so that if he gets too roughed up he can just hop in the water, splash about for a wee bit, and then hop back out right as rain.

He runs into Nico while Nico is looking for the doors of death and is half relieved to see another demigod for the first time in almost a year and the other half of him is horrified at the thought of a tiny squishy kid like Nico wandering Tartarus on his own. Ethan volunteers to be Nico's guide since Ethan knows the place pretty well (and because he's lonely and also because he doesn't want Nico to be on his own). They have a pretty decent time mostly because Ethan quickly clocks Nico as a closeted gay kid and decides to take him under his wing like a wizened queer mentor he is. Anyway, the thing with the giants happens and the two get separated when Nico gets jarred and Ethan is sent floating face-down in the Phlegethon. When he gets back on his feet he has no idea whether or not Nico's even alive which is. concerning.

Luckily for him, just when he thought his hellish Tartarus life is getting back to normal, Percy and Annabeth come dawdling along like a pair of zombies. Ethan can't just leave them so he drags them with him and offers to help with whatever bullshit they've been up to (he also gets the chance to ask about Nico and is very relieved when they let him know he's okay). No one in this situation is having a great time at the start because while Ethan did try to kill Kronos, the three of them still aren't on the best of terms. These terms don't get particularly better when Ethan stands off to the side watching the whole Akhlys thing go down and a significant part of him is wishing he hadn't kept them alive because OH MY GOD these bitches are so high maintenance! After the poison thing Annabeth and Percy are pretty tense with each other and Ethan, to his horror, realises that he needs to be the mediator so he just pulls them aside and tells them as gently as possible to get their shit together until they're not in hell anymore (not in so many words, he tells Percy that Annabeth might be a tad hesitant around guys she's close to suddenly developing a violent anger that causes them to lash out a people all things considered). Anyway, he brings them over to Damasen, who he's been pretty chill with over the past year, and then they get to the doors of death and Ethan finally gets to leave Tartarus (also Nico is very surprised and relieved to see Ethan no longer floating face-down in a river of fire).

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

i am NOT making it offline god said online friends only

[taviokapudding]

My dad and I were chatting before bed when he said "damn shame Republicans hate Democrats too much because you almost saved the United Healthcare ceo"

And I stared at him in confusion until I remembered I convinced Democrats to write the active shooter alert system bill in 2022 & Republicans said no. Since my Twitter is gone, the thread of me @ everyone is gone. And when Trump got re-elected, I removed the video discussing the bill concept for public comments. It fully slipped my mind because I went from pulling teeth & being reluctantly patient to full on cussing, cursing, and hexing the government by the end of 2023.

I hope that Twitter DC staffer is having a good laugh- I bet their bosses are pissed wwwwww

I don't remember the exact wording I wrote to the White House when I cussed out Biden for funding war crimes (2023) & the bill itself (2022) but I did list consequences I foresaw that are happening now, so suck to suck if nobody listened & are on the receiving end of massive hexes

I guess my dad is right, the GOP technically killed Brian Thompson in 2022

[sebbyisland]

akanematic.mp4 (youtube link)

[l-alan-l]

grappling with my envy the past few days that stems from seeing people connect in all sorts of manners while my attachment issues prevent me from doing just that grrr

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[general-kalani]

WHAT DID I SAY WRONG?????

[magnusmodig]

ovo whispers menacingly abt his grandstanding .

[phoenixcatch7]

Trying so hard to not start fic writing before I've even finished the game but I want so so bad to write a time travel fic where post totk wild gets sent back to pre calamity hyrule in the middle of a lynel or gleeok fight, like he's just covered in monster blood and guts with a mishmash of armour pieces (at least one barbarian piece) hair long and tangled, scars all over, wielding a ridiculously huge savage lynel spear tipped with dragon claw and dripping sizzling blood. Smoke coming off him. Arm looking half rotted.

In the middle of the throne room.

Several particularly delicate lords and ladies faint. All the guards are pointing spears. He nearly takes someone's eye out before realising where he is.

Once he realises when he is it becomes a race of time to make the right waves before zelda comes to pick him up.