#I might've already posted about this

[aeroplanestouchthesky]

Massive Outer Wilds spoilers, don't read if you haven't played!

From the moment Chert said that other stars in the universe were going supernova, I was pretty certain that the entire universe was dying. As a result, I didn't have the same "reached-sun-station-and-gave-up-hope" experience that I think a lot of people going through outer wilds had.

Instead, after learning about how the single sun exploding would be enough energy for 22 minutes of time, I had this theory that the entire universe going out would be enough energy to power the Ash Twin Project enough to go far enough back to when the Nomai still lived. Maybe we could give them the coordinates to the Eye of the Universe or prevent them from dying to the Stranger. Even before meeting Solanum, I'd thought there might still be a living Nomai inside the ATP, since one of the masks was lit. Maybe I could tell them and they could change things.

Only once I made it to the Ash Twin Project did I actually feel crushed. Nothing left to hope for.

[murdockhawkeye]

sometimes i think about the girls telling their families after graduation. and the comedic (but also angst) potential that has

like, imagine the lore dumps they'd have. like, oh yeah, emma accidentally killed miriam that one time, or rikki's been kidnapped four times, or hey, that lady down by the docks people said was a witch? she was actually a mermaid too

[realtapiocafan]

james and andrew pointed out that maybe joe isn't at the offseason camp yet, because this is the one year he doesn't HAVE to be. like last year, he HAD to stay in cincy for rehabilitation. this year, he's healthy and enjoying himself!

regardless of that though, james says joe will be in paycor soon so! things to be excited by!

[noodlewitchery]

i really like how 'perfect' geometry represents heaven in a way in this story, because we got to see the gate of pride as cubes right. and then this is mentioned

also! leah's powers (her water manipulation here) show her turning the rain into perfect blocks of any size. since she's familar with channeling the angel's power i'd imagine the block shape is either second-nature or something she was taught by the church...?

and this moment where dante purifies her wounds back in the beezlebub arc.

here where she's putting beezlebub in chains.

also worth mentioning: when she channels the angels' power she has a triangle halo over her head. (love this panel by the way..... my favorite leah panel Ever).

and triangles by themselves already have a ton of symbolism!! a quick search will tell you they're associated with:

Christianity (& 3 parts of the Holy Trinity, God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit)

Fire, water, air, and earth, are all alchemic elements depicted with different upright and upside-down triangles

that's especially cool, considering leah's skill is 'alchemy', which is learning how to combine her faith with science to actually channel that power. super fun detail

this post is long enough as is but. also the fact that in (beezlebub arc) paradise the entire sequence involves rectangles, dante's salt pillar powers are drawn solid and blocky, it's all reinforcing the idea that heaven is minecraft perfect geometry.

[gxlden-angels]

I've had this account now for 5ish years now. I've been in therapy for years, not exclusively for religious trauma but it's a major part. I've gotten better. I have a lot of content here I could reflect on, but I don't think I want to. I like knowing I progressed. I don't like looking at what from. Usually religious trauma comes up in therapy as an "oh yea...." instead of by name now. It's indirect. Enmeshment. Parentification. Vaginismus. Scrupulous and Harm OCD. Alexithymia. Derealization and Depersonalization. Paranoia.

I'm like, a real adult now I guess. I have a bachelor's degree now. I walk this upcoming weekend. I live in a house and I'm renting out a room with my own money. It has a backyard my cat likes to run around in. I had a job interview in my chosen field today. It went well

Then I'll go back to my family for the weekend and I find out they're spiraling into AI generated christian conspiracy theory videos. Their pastor is preaching about Trump being the anti-christ, and any non-Trump or Conspiracy message is the same thing he's said for the past decade, sometimes word for word. My uncle is convinced he's a prophet. He tells a story about a girl that was paralyzed after not listening to his message. My grandfather is convinced us black people are the true Israelites and chosen people. I thought I was the only one medically neglected by my aunt who's a doctor. I was not. I show her my emotions chart app. She tells me it's good so I can recognize when I feel bad and remember Jesus's love until I'm happy again. It's not normal for your joints to pop out of place apparently. We all learned this at the same time. It's Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. That explains a lot. My grandfather fell asleep to a video about the Ethiopian bible and how other bibles were made to take out miracles by Jesus and angels again. The remote is lodged in his hand so we can't change it

Then I talk about plants and food with my dad and my grandmother. My dad jokingly complains about his mom making him garden with her all day half a century ago. I give her a little kiss on her forehead before I go. My dad sends me home with leftover peach cobbler he made. I eat it with my lunch at my job. I answer phone calls at a front desk. I paid real taxes for the first time this year. I go to therapy and I talk about everything from my sex life to my graduate school plans to my opinions about generative AI (I hate it). I'm like, a real, breathing adult that has autonomy I guess. I'm not even claimed as a dependent anymore. I built my own desk that I bought from Big Lots.

You get where I'm going with this right? I'm not cured or healed by any means. Far from it in fact. I still get a pang of anxiety using the lord's name in vain and a chill down my spine when manifesting feels too close to confessing. It's harder making a personal post about religious trauma now though. It's not necessarily that I'm cured, it's just so engrained that I've created atheistic excuses to stay stuck in my religious trauma. I can pinpoint the source of it if I think about it long enough, so I don't think about it long enough

I'm not afraid to think lustful thoughts because holding lust in your heart is a sin, it's because I feel like a creep. I'm not worried I'll be sent to hell if I make mistakes that take me further from Jesus, I just think making mistakes would make me a bad person and an asshole. These beliefs popped out of nowhere, of course. They aren't influenced by the religious trauma so deeply buried in my head that taking it out would feel like taking out the gray matter of my brain itself. I'm schrodingers's man where I'm only a human when I'm observed. It used to be a deity but then it was you. I'm observed by you and that proved I'm human just long enough to get by when I most needed it. I still have that problem, but I'm seen outside of here. I see myself more often too

I don't want this post to seem like a good-bye, because it's not. I'm just currently in a period of limbo and I feel like the next generation of religious trauma bloggers are rising. I'm too busy arguing with my therapist about why I'm a bad person in a way that doesn't just boil down to "I'm a sinner in need of redemption" in a desperately-secular way. I'm self-aware enough to know that's what I'm doing, but not progressing enough to stop yet. I think what will happen is I'll eventually get frustrated enough to give up on the secular origins of my mental distress. I think a lot of you are in a similar place. You're out long enough that it feels like it should be over. You don't live in the bible-thumping, belt-wielding, gay-bashing, hellscape you once did. You might even be no-contact. You pay taxes now in your apartment. But it's not over. It's still there. It's just harder to say it's Jesus's fault I'm like this. It feels like it's been too long to still blame the bible.

It's not. It's buried in your synapses and neurons and muscles and bones and skin and hair and teeth and it's hard to remember that after 5 years. It's not oozing out into your bloodstream and filling you with enough cortisol and adrenaline to fuel an elephant anymore. It trickles though like a leaky faucet. I think I've lost the plot at this point, but you get it

Like I said, not a goodbye despite what it seems like. I just have to remember that a leaky faucet is still a concern

[zenshigarakilover]

My Hero Academia: Season 7 Episode 13- All for One Scenes

AFO struggling with Tenko for control over the body

AFO seeing Yoichi's face as he's getting beaten brutally by Izuku

Flashback to AFO crying as he kills Kudou

Zoom in on AFO's eye

Vestige AFO getting his period during the battle

[mewkwota]

Are you still awake?

I drew this at the small edge of my page knowing very well that it would lead to cutoffs and overlap with other sketches because I really do feel more comfortable doing certain positions like this. It just makes it hard to get a snap of them with a "complete" feel.

In a majority of my previous works focusing on Juno's eyes, they were slightly relaxed, as he had just woken up while also going along with his typical calmness. But I've also tried (and failed many times) to see how they would look when they're totally open-- this is excluding the shots where he is straight-up trying to kill someone. :)

In this context, Juno is activated but not totally working if that makes sense? As you may kinda make it out, he isn't upright, so his whole body isn't there either. I was going for something "still, blank, empty".

[hurricanek8art]

Screw it, I posted the fic, she's my other main oc in the SWTOR-fic-verse in my head and drafts, SO part two of me clawing my way out of my anxiety bubble: character profiles part two! In which i still suck at summarizing events without sounding pretentious or overdoing it on the lore dumping. I have like. two good screenshots of Chrysali on my tablet and no access to the ones on my old laptop hard drive still (😭😭😭), but thanks to @jeswii coming in the clutch with a screenshot so I don't claw my hair out (THANK YOU AGAIN) I have finished one out of three parts of that art thing I've been going insane rambling about lately and it's my favorite part of it so have this bit of a thing that I will finish eventually!🥴 I'm probably going to come back to this and swap the art out for the full finished piece once it's done-done, but! in the meantime!:

Chrysali Vidoi: the Cipher

Homeworld: Druckenwell

Born: 3662BBY (age 22 at start, currently 40)

Species: Genetically- and cybernetically-enhanced Human

Occupation: co-operations manager and head of Alliance Intelligence; formerly agent of the Imperial Intelligence division

Affiliations: Eternal Alliance; formerly Imperial Intelligence

Romances: Theron Shan

Chrysali Vidoi is a woman of many names—Cipher Nine, Nashtah Twelve, Legate, and countless more she cannot even remember, but none of them matter more to her than the one she was born with and constantly denied. A survivor of the Battle of Druckenwell as a child, Chrysali found herself rounded up in the aftermath by agents of the Imperial Science Division and taken as test subjects for the Arkanian cyber-geneticist Atro Arkova's Project: Nashtah. Arkova wanted to create a perfect living weapon, and through a combination of cybernetic modification and genetic enhancement, he made the children under his thumb more—faster, stronger, more agile, more capable in a fight, immune to the effects of external stimulants like alcohol and drugs, and with a lowered sensitivity to internal hormones like adrenaline that could impair their reactions. Better than droids because they could think for themselves, Arlova molded them into becoming a potential replacement for even the vaunted Cipher program one day. They were deadly killing machines with only one flaw: they were not invincible. By the time Chrysali (now designated Nashtah Twelve) came of age, only a handful of her fellow Nashtahs had survived their grueling training, and the project was closed down as a failure with the survivors shuffled into Imperial Intelligence instead. Chrysali took to the work like she was made for it (and she had been) but all the while hated everything about it—the Empire, the work, herself, everything. A rollercoaster three years followed that ended with Imperial Intelligence disbanded, Ardun Kothe's offer to make her a double-agent for the SIS, and Chrysali aimless as she struggled to be more than just the weapon she was made to become. The Revanite crisis served to be the lifeline out of her confusion, and Chrysali latched onto the allies she found amongst it, in particular finding something of a kindred spirit in Theron Shan. The years under Zakuul, then fighting Zakuul, brought them together, and now they are an unbreakable partnership in every sense of the word, facing down whatever comes next the way they do best—together.

[mad-hunts]

starting off this sunday with a sad fact, and that is often whenever barton smells this cinnamon, but as a part of a specific blend with... something else he can't quite identify? barton is reminded of marcy because she used to wear a perfume that had that sort of scent to it.

[moodyseal]

[said as I'm emptily staring at the ceiling] when Caligula taunted Apollo during their fight at the Caldecott tunnel by saying "Remember what happens next?" he specifically worded it like that in reference to Jason's last words to Apollo didn't he

[someonesomewheredown]

An OC idea I've had for a while is a furry that's just a swam of bees that make a kind of humanoid shape with the hive acting as their head. Since the whole body is just made of a packed together swarm it's pretty small but they can become bigger by using a larger object as a base to form their body around. They're generally referred to either by (plural) they/them or it/its pronouns but the hive itself uses "we" or "us" when referring to themselves in conversation.

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Just now learning how lacking the platonic F/O imagines section was, y'all weren't kidding huh

[lacomandante]

Wellington, in the summer of 1813, consolidates the partisans working under him to be in the Spanish 4th Army- and in the canon where Teresa is Fine, it's my personal headcanon that rather than putting her in the 4th Army, Wellington makes her an officer on his staff- specifically a Major.

Making her men detachments allows him to send her off where he needs her, and with the rank allows her to lead them as she usually does, but under a more official banner. It's more efficient and she can answer directly to him, rather than jumping through hoops. Legend has it that Wellington did this with Agustina de Aragón, though whether its true or not, I do think Wellington would see the benefits of having Teresa on his staff considering how long she's worked for him, though there would be considerable changes Teresa would have to abide by, she'd happily accept.

[risingsunresistance]

having smpe be my main interest sucked bc no one made new content for it ever, but there at least WAS content to look back on. tons of streams from a bunch of ccs and all kinds of art back in 2019/2020. some art still gets made today but way less often

having my main interest be a one-time event is horrendous. there is never anything new. someone mentions dante's name in some new dialogue and that'll do me for a few months. there are MAYBE two streams i can rewatch bc of saved archives, and they're of the same thing in the same lobby so there's nothing new to see. i have like 10 pieces of art i cherish, and a few of those are my own 😭

[reginrokkr]

𝐗𝐋𝐈𝐕. Just like in the past I talked in depth about the importance behind one of Dain's forebears being a mystic voyager unrelated to Teyvat and how this affects to who he is as well as the potential he can reach, it is also relevant to touch onto the subject of his angelic traits —some of which he does exhibit— and how they affect him to who he is too.

Descriptively, angels are said to have beautiful forms that wore crowns of sevenfold radiance wrought of the earth's bones (highly likely Ley Lines) and the stars of the sky. They had pale silver wings that shimmered like moonlit flames and horns. The skin of one of them —Nabu Malikata— is described as sparkling with lunar glow and whose face was indescribably beautiful.

Note ₁: In the 「Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies」 book collection, exists a civilization that lives in the Moonlight Forest. These people are described to be «born with fair skin, light-colored hair, and bright blue eyes. Perhaps the constant lack of sunlight and the nourishment of the moonlight was the reason for their beauty, giving them an appearance different from the abhorrent creatures lurking at the edge of the forest.» Irregardless if this location makes direct reference to Khaenri'ah or not, every known Khaenri'ahn (no matter if pure-blooded or not) was depicted with light eyes, some of being bright blue —among which Dain is—.

Cognitively, angels have shown to have knowledge of Teyvat's real workings as well as the ability of prophecy several years into the future. This may be due to the strong association angels seem to have with Irminsul and the Ley Lines by extension.

Note ₂: Dain has also shown a strong capability for foresight as well as for gathering knowledge of several individuals in ways that they haven't disclosed to others, furthermore, he has also shown awareness about the workings of Teyvat in a way that would be only possible for special beings such as those of divine nature. Two of his titles that stem from the same through different translations are «Bough Keeper» and «Truthseeker» which may allude to his connection to Irminsul. Moreover, Irminsul has been described as the Tree of Time and another of Dain's titles that was released in his marketing drop is «Confluence Between the Past and the Future», which gives further credence that there is an intimate connection between both. Lastly, his older brother Vedrfolnir is known as the Visionary which could be considered as the highest title for an indivual with a penchant for foresight, given that his prophecies may affect the entirety of the world's fate.

Angels (and Seelie by extension) have exhibited other abilities of interest, such as:

✧ Interaction with the environment: Seelie are able to influence their environment to open paths where usually it should be impossible to access by other means. Regardless if it is due to their connection to Ley Lines (and thus to reality) or otherwise, one could infer that they have influence over the reality around them and are able to bend it to their will.

Note ₃: Dain has exhibited a similar ability himself when thinking about the fact that the eye of the first Field Tiller was within his body or that he can seize an enemy through an unknown form of energy via telekinesis.

✦ Khvarena formation: While created by another angel —Nabu Malikata—, the topic of interest is what Khvarena does exactly. It is a form of energy that can be assimilated with other elements and thus gaining new attributes that by themselves they wouldn't have. It's also contrary to the Abyss, being able to purify it and heal the affected land by it. It is also a giver of life as it's seen with the mystical bird Simurgh and the Pari. The latter are also able to interact with the environment via the Khvarena they wield and, at the end of their lives they are converted into Plumes of Purifying Light, carriers of past memories.

Note ₄: Dain's form of energy was shown to be opposing to the Abyss, as it is able to dispel a barrier of the same nature of the Nameless City in the depths of the Chasm as well as he's able to lift protective barriers that impede the pass of others, which is one of the abilities the Pari exhibit through their use of Khvarena.

✧ Ley Line creation: Via previously existing ones. The Lord of Night in Natlan was able to reconstruct the Ley Line system, thus giving birth to a unique environment known as the Night Kingdom after the original ones were destroyed during the War of Vengeance. An important detail to note is her intrinsic connection to souls, as she is able to feel their suffering as if it were her own.

Note ₅: In 「Bedtime story」, Dain felt a strong pain byproduct of the Ley Line modification that was taking place at the moment because of Caribert's doings with the quasi-finished Loom of Fate. This can be inferred as him having a sentience of what happens with the Ley Lines and by extension, Teyvat in itself as it is perfused with them.

✦ Life creation: Through their wounds. Such was Nabu Malikata's case as she was hurt and from her blood, springs and streams came to existence which subsequently flowed into gardens. The Jinn were born from the water lilies that grew in those gardens.

While these weren't innate to Dain's birth, many of these traits served as potentials that he could come to have domain over or not with the passing of his life. Besides what was mentioned before and as alluded in previous headcanons, he also possesses the ability to heal and purify —originally linked with Irminsul— which he's come to master the more he got in touch with his own heights of enlightenment and of getting out of the shackles of corruption and of the curse that make this endeavor difficult.

[laskume-dragon]

ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

Beware of this person (Scam!)

They asked me for a commission and sounded pretty legit at first, if maybe a little weird but legit, i guess

The scammy part was ofc the payment.

They asked for PayPal and especially the email i use. They then sent me a screenshot of an apparent payment, which I did not receive over my actual paypal.

They then asked me to check my email and also my junk folder, as it might've landed there.

And ofc an email was there. From an email that might've seemed legit in the first second but it was NOT the official PayPal address.

Said email read as follows:

[sidenote: don't click on 'get the details', i didn't either so i dunno what would happen but it's a scam email, so it can't be good]

Anyways, said email is obviously scam cus the restrictions are way higher on PayPal even with unverified accounts and a simple google search revealed it to be a quite common scam technique.

So if you get messages from this person or others with the result in similar emails, block, report and move on!

Stay safe!