#10 years of night changes

[ifthestarswereedibleharry]

10 years of Night Changes!

[blueskittlesart]

it is kind of funny in a painful sort of way that because several hundred people recommended genshin impact to me purely due to it blatantly ripping assets from botw back in like 2021 i now have a worm in my brain that forces me to log in once a month and witness the death of video games as a creative storytelling medium

[constant-brain-fog]

hello I am in fact alive and here to drop this WIP for 🎉✨FNaF’s 10th anniversary! ✨🎉

absolutely BONKERS that we are here today, insane decade full of loooooooooore!

I’ll try and have a full coloured version done this weekend! I haven’t been drawing much lately and I’m trying to get back into it slowly 👌

[taylorsabrina]

HAPPY 10 YEARS OF TAKING ON THE WORLD BTW. 😭😭😭😭😭

[jjllyart]

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY FNAF !!

[binarybitex]

waah I found some old Cardboard Castles art....

[valewritessss]

Finally deleted MyFitnessPal off my phone for my own personal sanity

[running-in-the-dark]

my niece is staying with us for the whole weekend for the first time. until now it's always been one night only, not two.

it's the second night now and I have already decided this is not happening again anytime soon. I'm so fucking exhausted. it'd be less exhausting if it was my nephew, I think - he's older and also doesn't need as much help (even when he was her age).

I love my niece but she just asks so many questions. like when we're watching a show or a movie, even if it's one she has seen before (even multiple times), she doesn't understand what's going on and constantly asks me to explain everything. I don't mind it, really, but it does take a lot of energy. plus tonight it took over two hours for her to fall asleep because she was scared by the noises of the house and the nearby road. I get it, but damn I'm so fucking tired, I just want to sleep 😭

[spaghett-onaplate]

it's literally not a good idea in any way shape or form but I want to get a second job in fast food

[the-wales-5]

10 years with The Wales Family 💙

20th July 2023 x 20th July 2023♡

💓 @thewales-family @royalknightwalker @katefiction @cambridgefan11 @world-of-wales @willandkate @elegantlandobject @willandkatealways @philibetexcerpts @catherinequeenie-benstridge @worldsoldestswiftie @thewholeplaceshimmering @the-best-soap-opera-ever 💓

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I must say, it's pretty poetic that I've gotten to season 6 of Vampire Diaries right before another solar eclipse happens in America. I certainly didn't plan it, but it does feel like my timing is very appropriate with this one. I do have questions about the accuracy of the eclipse portrayal in the show, though. I mean, a solar eclipse did in fact happen on May 10, 1994, and it was visible across much of the country, so that much is accurate. But I don't think Mystic Falls would've had quite as good of a view as they show it having. For reference, here's a map of the May 1994 eclipse path (credit: timeanddate.com):

And, if you'll remember, Mystic Falls is like two hours from my old hometown just a stone's throw north of Lynchburg, Virginia, as seen on the locator spell map (this one's all over tumblr, forgive me for not remembering what blog I grabbed it from):

So if you zoom in on the timeanddate map and pick somewhere closeish to there:

It looks like Mystic Falls would be getting a little over 77% coverage or so. It's also worth noting that the '94 eclipse was an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse like tomorrow's eclipse. That still means that the moon went directly in front of the sun, but it does mean that it was small enough/far enough from earth that you didn't quite get full coverage of the sun (thanks to weather.gov for the nifty graphic):

So, I'm not positive whether it would've looked quite as dark as was shown in the show:

Although, I must admit, in this video I found on youtube of the '94 eclipse, (part of me is shocked to find footage from then but I know I shouldn't be like yes they had cameras in the 90s) it actually looks more similar than I expected it to look, but I imagine it was most likely filmed within the path of totality:

But also, when Kai takes Bonnie to Portland, don't they see the eclipse again there? I couldn't find that clip on youtube just now, but Portland barely had any eclipse--only 42-43% coverage, so it would've been way milder of a visual effect, barely any dimming in the sky noticeable without eclipse glasses.

The funny thing is, the area where I live is going to be sitting right around 80% coverage tomorrow. I was lucky enough to get to travel to Missouri for the 2017 eclipse to get into the path of totality, but I'm afraid that it hasn't worked out for me to do so this year, which is immensely disappointing to me as an astronomy enjoyer, but I do still plan to go to an eclipse party and I'm going to start saving to try and get to Spain for the next total eclipse in 2026, which is going to be right around my 30th birthday (screaming). Anyways, it isn't great, but here's my best picture from the '17 eclipse:

I didn't even have a smartphone yet then, because despite it being 2017, I was somewhat of a luddite, so I had the purple flip phone I so stubbornly clung to and a point-and-click Nikon, but I still think this picture is pretty cool for what it is. Here's the zoom in so you can really see that ring of fire (and my shaking hands doubling the image):

Obviously you can find thousands of better eclipse pictures online, but that one's still special to me because it's mine. Anyways, I'll report back with smart phone pictures from whatever I see of the 80% total eclipse tomorrow to compare and contrast with Mystic Falls's 70% annular eclipse of the 90s, because from what I've heard it's going to be much less impressive than full totality was, but I've yet to watch a partial solar eclipse, so I'll just have to find out. Also, if you happen to have any vampiric loved ones trapped in a magical prison dimension who you need help freeing during the eclipse tomorrow, let me know and I'll see what I can do! ;) Hahaha. Anyways, happy eclipse everyone, and may we all possess sufficient self restraint to avoid eye damage (says the woman who has looked at the sun unprotected so many times and is probably going to go blind because of it some day. I know what I've done lol. Don't be me.)

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

Hi! Purple Ballora Anon here lol

I was catching up on your blog and noticed a few posts about Bill not having a set motive.

One thought could be that the start of his spree was likely caused by trauma. Either his son dying or the overwhelming stress of trying so hard to be normal finally crashing down on him when his wife leaves the picture or his first spring lock accident.

With an already present fear of death and irrational thought process, ya get a perfect disaster. That and his vicious amount of jealousy.

Later in the story , specifically during the 30 years of isolation, he just loses his actual reasoning. The solitude driving him mad and his memory being damaged. He no longer can make the connections he once did. Those things don't matter anymore as the idea of putting them back together completely skews one way. His obsession had already started losing meaning, but the solitary confinement really solidified the loss.

Either way, I'm a big fan of Springtrap not really being WILLIAM as much as it is whats left after all those years. Bitter, confused, feral violence with a splash of memory skewing. I like the open endedness of the character's motive because it let's us imagine endless possibilities. It's what made the first appearance of Springtrap so memorable.

This is really good but we have very very different ideas on it (which is part of the fun imo). Those posts weren't me saying I don't have my own ideas about why Bill does the things he does (I do) it was about how deeply and consistantly I am disapointed by Scott's writing and his refusal to commit to literally anything- particularly the main villain's motive.

Also this is totoally a personal preference thing but I'm really into the idea that Bill going off the deep end was incredibly preventable, and that it's ulitimatly his own decision to do so. It hightens the tragedy (and is generally just more interesting to me) if it's his fault and his fault alone. Obvs I think his attitudes are informed by things that have happened to him (as all attitudes are) but they are not the cause of the awful things he does- William is.

A massive, massive thing to me is giving characters the autonomy to make their own bad descisions. Obviously it can be compelling to strip them of that autonomy and have things heavily infulence what they do- but generally I prefer their actions to be their own.

[molkolsdal]

Saw The Killers on September 10th and it was truly magical ✨️

[cyarskj1899]

THAT is the part that stuck with me and these bunch of sheep completely gloss over that. Smmfh.

[loremaster]

my favorite vocaloid song (surprising nobody)😢

[marcvscicero]

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