#A date with destiny

[tales-of-valentine]

Junelezen Day 7: Boat

Idea and Seth Hewitt belongs to @nikyri-ninky

[artamazon]

Valentine's Day 2021 - Destiny Valentine's in the style of Dream Daddy. I did way too many of these things lol

We had a lot of fun on Twitter with these! Even had some people do amazing voice lines for them!

Drifter

Asher:

Crow:

[avatar-mikazuki]

I love how Starfire goes from "Who is this girl, Robin?"

To smacking her straight up lmfao.

The way he's worried about her reaction but has to think about the city 😭

Robin debating whether the date is worth it or if he can girl boss his way through this while his not gf rages in the background is peak.

[draculas-husband]

❤️~Good morning, my love~💋

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BESTIE!!! 🎂🥳✨❤️😘🎉🌹

This has been weeks in the making and now I can finally share it!

Seth Hewitt belongs to @nikyri-ninky (the burfdai bud) 💖

Taliesin Valentine belongs to me

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

What Is Doom's Day? Your Complete Guide to the Multi-Platform Doctor Who Event

What Is Doom's Day? Your Complete Guide to the Multi-Platform #DoctorWho Event

More details have appeared on the merchandise soon to be released as part of this year’s multi-platform story Doom’s Day. Said to be ‘the universe’s greatest assassin’, new character Doom has to embark on a 24 hour quest to find the Doctor, in the hope the Time Lord can save her from ‘the ever-approaching Death’. It’s fair to say that the initial response to Doom’s Day back in March was less…

[saltair-and-webweaves]

One single thread of gold tied me to you

past lives, børns/you had me at hello, mhairi mcfarlane/elektra, sophocles/the wedding date (2005)/invisible string, taylor swift/walking home, marie howe/robert james waller/ @billypotts /@hermoonlit-world /call me maybe, carly rae jepsen/invisible string, taylor swift

requested here

[drakkonyan]

Turnabout visitor? what are you visiting you BOYFRIEND? checkmate, he's gay, we got him guys

[vanade]

IT IS DONE 📢

The Dawning may be over but it's still on in my heart...

Spend a few days with my guardian Ceph, helping him figure out cookie recipes with Eva's 1st gen oven. Will you befriend him? Spend every moment flirting?? Will you EAT THE FORBIDDEN DOUGH?

Features:

10.7k of text (10-15 min per playthrough)

lots of dialogue choices

customizable player name (pronouns are unspecified/gender-neutral throughout the game)

be a human, awoken or exo (changes some flavour text)

original OST by my sister

too many cookies

Play it for free over on itch.io ! Windows, Linux, OSX and Web-Playable! (download recommended though) Also if you enjoy it I would really appreciate if you could leave a rating!! This was a solo project for #WinterVNJam2023 and it was a work of love (and insanity)

[sylenth-l]

I’ll headcanon that Bungie saw your art of Tallu thirdwheeling Saint and Osiris as an inspiration for their lore on a new Ronin ghost shell. :D

ASJLHDFGLJKSDHLKF I'm screaming 😂😂😂 My original post, however I'll use this opportunity to post this gem again:

Thank you guys for telling me!!

Links to the mentioned lore: [Ronin shell] [Semitone Shift]

[kaiaelsher]

A scenario where Raf invite you over to read this one book that was actually restricted by the government the moment it was released so there was only one copy of it and he just - casually read them on the couch because he has that book wrapped with other unrecognizable lable so it's safe to just carry it around without getting caught.

You sat between his legs and leaned your back on his chest, feeling the way his chest slowly and steadily raise up and down in order to appear calm (yet his heartbeat stated otherwise) and read the slowly fading yet readable phrases written as you both talked to each other about your opinion regarding the topics written there, even better if the book was a fictional story and you both gave your perspective about this one character.

And Rafayel LOVES IT he loves hearing your opinions on things he's interested on.

After that, the story in the book become the inside jokes between you two, when you were about to do something you know is fucked up, you're going to just say, "Whatever, (character name) is way more fucked up that I am.". Or the both of you just randomly says the memorable quotes from the book as a way to joke with each other.

I think that's beautiful.

[telestoapologist]

i couldn't get better pictures of them bc they kept figuring out i was close by😭 but like, i luv how these two are always together ;w; they r dating...

[tales-of-valentine]

26th Sun of the 2nd Umbral Moon - Seth's nameday (25/4)

I lowkey forgot to post this yesterday but at least the individual it was mainly for, got to see it in time.

Seth's nameday is on the 25th of April so of course I made sure to celebrate him. 🥳 This naturally included plenty of homecooked food, lots of smooches n' cuddles and a dip or two in the garden pond. I hope you like your new shirts Sethy and that you had a wonderful nameday!~ 💙🌹

I also sincerely hope you had a good time and enjoyed the lil surprise both in and out of the game @nikyri-ninky aka Seth's creator. ❤️✨

[alanide-arts]

casual dressin'

(Pepper belongs to @pac1fythehunger)

[thefirstknife]

We're told that at the beginning of the Golden Age "human lifespans tripled" - my impression is that this continues to be a case and that the humans we know are often well over 100 years old. In my head at least, Eva is in her mid 200s. Am I wrong, or is this supported by canon?

I believe it is still the case, though finding evidence is really difficult, mostly because we simply don't have a timeline. I think it would make sense for this to still be in effect because nothing else from the Traveler's terraforming and gifts was removed post-Collapse.

However, the question is also how much of the extended lifespan was due to the paracausality of the Traveler and its gifts and how much was just advancement in technology. Or a combination of both? If the majority of the lifespan extension was just due to technology, then this would've been lost post-Collapse. But possibly some of it could have been regained in the recent years, affecting the lifespans again.

One of the most obvious questions is Eris and the status of Lightless Guardians and aging. She lost her Light in the Great Disaster which was quite a while ago, but how long ago exactly? Long enough for this to affect her? Long enough to be noticeable or not? It doesn't seem to be very noticeable, so either it wasn't too long ago, or Guardians don't age even after losing their Light, or the lifespan is still extended so Eris is just old and it's not a big deal.

Eva is also a curious case, as we know very little about her life. She's very clearly an older woman, but we have no idea about when she was born. There's not a single mention of anything from her youth that would help us place it somewhere in the timeline. Has she been around for a normal amount of time or extended? She made one comment to Osiris (at the time Savathun, but Eva didn't know that):

"Eva. It's been too long. You look as bright as ever." Osiris melted out of the shadows near her doorway. The ex-outfitter snorted. "That's faint praise coming from someone who's been fifty for several centuries."

More under:

This can be read in several ways. it might just be a phrase because Guardians are known to not age. She knows Osiris must be the same as he was when he was rezed and she knows that he's been around for a while, given that he's a well-known Guardian. Or maybe she's also been around for a while and has seen him before; while she aged normally over the centuries, he didn't.

But that also becomes a problem with his exile because that would mean she would have to have seen him for a while before his exile and then years would've passed during the exile and she's still around now, which would make her quite significantly old (and would also prove extended lifespans). But we have no real proof of this.

Speaking of Osiris and his exile, there is one other specific piece of evidence, but it also depends A LOT on how well we can estimate when certain events happened.

Sister Faora! She led the Cult of Osiris at the time of Osiris' exile (and for ?? years after). We know this because she got to meet Osiris merely weeks after his exile:

The weeks since his departure from the Last City have worn on him.

The last time she appeared in the setting (in-game wise) was around House of Wolves; after that, she was no longer mentioned. I honestly thought she died of old age and that this wasn't important enough to mention because she's a fairly niche character.

But she didn't die. She appeared in the City during Season of the Deep. And it's not a story of something from the past, it's her being in the City in the present time because she meets with Shayura who is mourning Reed-7's death (which occured at the start of Lightfall). This now gives us a unique insight because she's a normal Lightless human, and we have two specific points of reference: Osiris' exile and the Witness' attack on Earth in Lightfall. We would just have to figure out how long it's been between these two events, which is where the problems start and assumptions must be made.

My first assumption is that Faora must've already been old-ish when she was the leader of the Cult back during Osiris' exile. I think it's reasonable to assume this, given her position as a leader. I always thought she would've been at least 40 or older at the time of speaking to Osiris after his exile.

The first problem is the timeline of Osiris' exile. We know he was exiled around Twilight Gap which brings us to problem 2: when was that? This leads to assumption 2: Twilight Gap happened at least a century ago. There's some evidence to this, namely Osiris saying the following:

They were young, and nearly a century of navigation through the Infinite Forest had honed Osiris's ability to remain unseen.

But does this refer to the time passing in general or the time dilation in the Forest? So the problems continue. It's basically impossible to tell what's the time span between these events; both the Great Disaster (for the question of Eris' age) and Twilight Gap are notoriously hard to place, even in relation to each other. This has been an ongoing debate for years.

If Twilight Gap is not that long ago - maybe a few decades - then Faora's age could probably be within normal limits, though depending on her age at the time of Osiris' exile, she could be pushing 100 or more. So even if Twilight Gap was less than 50 years ago, Faora could still be too old for non-extended lifespans.

She would have to have been in her 20s and Twilight Gap would have to be at max 50 years ago for her to be within a reasonable current age if the lifespan is not extended. Both of these estimates feel too low to me, especially Faora's age as an established leader of the Cult with a lot of authority. As I said, I imagined her being at least 40-50 at the time of speaking to Osiris.

And Twilight Gap has to be at least several decades away. I find it hard to believe that the Gap happened like 20 years ago; it's always talked about like Guardian history and its relation to Osiris' exile is fairly significant as well, so I'd give it at least a century, which also matches with Osiris' statement. If Twilight Gap happened at least a century ago and Faora was at least 40 at that time, she would have to be 140 right now which I think would suggest extended lifespan. However, depending on how we do the estimates, she could easily also be around 60-70.

But the truth is, we don't know. Much like the timeline, I think this is also very deliberately vague. I think it's very possible that the lifespans are still extended, or perhaps that there is some middle ground. The original Golden Age lifespans are still out of reach but the technological advancements in the current age combined with everything the Traveler has done to the system in the Golden Age allow for humans to push past what we have today. So maybe they can't get to the projected Golden Age 300 years, but possibly being 150 or 200 isn't out of reach.

Unfortunately, we don't really know for sure. We could probably go into analysis of every normal mortal human character mentioned and try to figure things out, but there will be confusing and contradicting evidence all over the place, keeping this fairly vague. And there would also be the issue of individual outliers; either those that live longer or die younger for reasons unrelated to aging.

Personally, I think lifespans are at the very least at least somewhat extended.

[draculas-husband]

Portraits of the lads that have stolen my heart and live rent free in my head.~ 💕

Seth Hewitt (Mr. Half ear) belongs to @nikyri-ninky 💜

Taliesin Valentine belongs to me. 💖

[athena-xox]

If you have think that people not following their destiny is unfair to those who want to follow their destinies because their choice is taken away I don’t know if you can be saved cause WHAT THE FUCK