#I'm really rusty lol

[thecheesecracker]

The wind in summertime 🎋

[silkspectred]

— Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907

[azatas]

"Worked with available data. Only option. No other possible... Doesn't matter."

[gotchibam]

Commissioned piece for Gabriel!

[ask-modern-patrochilles]

hope you guys are doing okay (you too mun!)

Achilles: A lot’s been going on!

[vagueeyes]

Propaganda for today's @insideno9bracket poll is appreciation for the costumes in THE TROLLEY PROBLEM.

Drew wearing dark colours and Blake wearing light (with dark underneath!) was easy to spot early on. But rewatching the episode today I finally realized what they resemble...

It's chess pieces. They are playing chess the entire episode. How did this not occur to me before??

Also, I've not read the script yet, but this has always been my favourite bit of dialogue - it summaries a lot of the show very well:

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

David Bowie study! I absolutely love this photo of him so I just had to draw it!

Original below!

[lunnefisk]

you ever boot up a video game and totally forget every mod you had installed

i sure just did

[gale-force-storm]

Whelp, I've graduated from writing poetry to full-on love songs. Unfortunately I don't have Gale's voice, so my own mezzo-soprano will have to suffice lol

Lyrics and chords under the cut!

If You’ll Catch Me

C Am F C C Am F G

C Am You saved me the very F C First day that we met C Am F G And since then you’ve always stood by me C Am Yet I still need to ask F C For my heart needs to know C Am F G If I fall will you be there to catch me?

C Am If I fall will you catch me? F C If I fall in love? C Am I’d give you each star in F G The heavens above C Am My heart and my soul F C Anything I can do C Am G I’d happily do it for you C Am F G If you’ll catch me

C Am I’ve been beaten down F C My heart broken and bruised C Am F G I’ve loved and been used before C Am But you’ve given me hope F C For the first time in ages C Am F G That I could be worth something more

If I fall will you catch me? If I fall in love? I’d give you each star in The heavens above My heart and my soul Anything I can do I’d happily do it for you If you’ll catch me

Em I’d paint the sky Em I’d blow your mind Am F G I’d give you the best gifts that I could find Em Yet you say you want Em Me as I am Am F G Not the miracle, just the man Em If it is true Em I’ll leave behind Am F G All of my old ambitions Em I’ll start right here Em And I will make Am F G A life with you my new mission

C Am If I fall will you catch me? F C If I fall in love? C Am I’d give you each star in F G The heavens above C Am My heart and my soul F C Anything I can do C Am G I’d happily do it for you

If I fall will you catch me? If I fall in love? I’d give you each star in The heavens above My heart and my soul Anything I can do I’d happily do it for you If you’ll catch me

C Am F G If you’ll catch me C If you’ll catch me

[loverboybrightsideghost]

hey there - I've been thinking of listening to rqg thanks to all your excellent posts about it, but I've never listened to an actual play show before. can I ask. how do you do that. are there seasons? is it all one story and you have to start at the beginning?

RUBS MY EVIL LITTLE HANDS TOGETHER!!!

but genuinely, i'm glad you asked! when i saw rqg from the outside before listening to it, i was also not really sure what it was.

rusty quill gaming is one long campaign (through not all actual play podcasts are!), and it is called "erasing the line." there are four seasons, although the seasons don't really have an equal number of episodes between them (season four is the longest). each episode is about forty minutes to an hour long, and they have mid-episode breaks, so if you can't listen for that long, you could totally pause it in the break and come back later.

you should definitely listen to it in order, and i suggest starting with the episode 0 metacast. moment of truth, i did not listen to that episode again on my relisten, i am listening to it now as i write this, but i do believe it contains Important Lore to understanding the story world, so i highly recommend starting there.

there aren't content warnings on the early episodes, but i think you can check the fandom wiki for a specific episode to see them, as fans have added them there (not sure if they're there for every episode though).

also there are kind of official transcripts on their website, but i am not sure how accurate they are as i have not read them. i know it was a Whole Deal with rusty quill (the company) to make transcripts, because they didn't do them from the beginning in 2015 and especially with something like actual play it can be hard and time-consuming to transcribe, and as there are over 200 episodes (including specials), there was also a big backlog. all this to say that there are transcripts, but i don't know if they are complete or very accurate.

apart from that, i will say that it is a little slow at the beginning, but if you give it a chance you may end up loving it :)

[keeps-ache]

i think i tapped on the explore page by accident some minutes ago, i've been scrolling for a good sec like 'why is this on my dash. i don't know any of these people. what's going on' lmfsvh

[rhonuscorner]

Have a WIP to show that I'm not actually dead when it comes to drawing DCA stuff. Also, new AU yaaaaay! No I haven't forgotten about my circus theater AU, but these two suddenly decided they have a right to take up space in my brain and wanted a story to go with it, so that's a thing now. I can't wait to actually show off their designs, so happy with how they came out.

I'm calling this AU the Eclipse Protocol and I'm really excited about it 👀 I say that while I still haven't uploaded the first chapter of Cirque des Célestes, which is still sitting unfinished at 14k+ words which is way too big and I have yet to figure out how I'm gonna tackle that and make that story manageable. I don't have the brain power for that right now, so I'm giving the new AU priority for the moment.

I also have a love/hate relationship with drawing robo hands/joints/parts aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. It's fun but it hurts my brain.

[burning-academia-if]

Different anon than genetics anon

But I’m actually pretty sure two people with blue eyes can have a child with brown eyes because they determined that eye color was actually determined by polygenic inheritance rather than the more Mendelian dominant and recessive pattern. Means multiple genes determine the phenotype of eye color, rather than just one.

Also, I wouldn’t be too concerned about following the basics of genetics 1 to 1 simply because the basics of genetics doesn’t account for a lot of things (linked genes, chimerism, genetic disorders that affect appearance, mutations, or even how sometimes a genotype and a phenotype don’t match in the way you expect because the sometimes the body makes mistakes following instructions so to speak (we see this in some intersex people who have a functioning y chromosome who for some reason never go through androgenization process [two times, this occurs, in utero and also later male puberty] and sometimes don’t find out they’re intersex until way later). Also hormones have a real stake in how you look, which is why it isn’t uncommon for pregnant women to experience things like hair texture or color changes, or even eye color shifts if I’m recalling correctly. In fact, even head trauma can change your eye color.

But I’d put whatever you’d want down for reasons and then *sparkly fingers* magic and not get too lost in minutiae of it all unless it’s something you enjoy. But also take what I’ve said with a grain of salt, things change and I could be outdated (I’m not afraid to say it’s been a minute since uni)

I love I brought out the science people with this lol brings me back to my biopsych research days of college (which is obviously Different from biology).

But yeah! That's what I meant in the last ask when I said "multiple traits affect it like eye color" (polygentic inheritance). I also didn't want to go full blown scienctic terms since I'm not sure how much of complicated biology is common knowledge aksksks so I tried to scale it back to like high school I guess

But also this is obviously pseudo science LMAO it's like trying to explain the biology of a mermaid and how they work in water (even though pop culture mermaids would not survive in water). You take bits of reality for the basis and then make up the rest of it so that it Works(tm)

[hazeerror]

//SPOILERS FROM THE PAST WITHIN / RUSTY LAKE ROOTS

This post is just basicly me ranting about my favorite game so don't take it that seriously ^^

Hyperfixation goes brrrrrrrrr

Something that I really loved about The Past Within is that how it tells the story from an unreliable perspective. This really showed when I played it with my boyfriend, someone who doesn't know the lore of the games and there for doesn't know Albert's history. It's clear that the story is told trough a bias towards Albert since he made the cube and we play as his daughter, Rose who also probably doesn't know the full story or just ignorant towards it. So when we played the game, for my boyfriend Albert just seemed like a weird old dude who really loves his daughter, but for me, I knew that the photo in the box of Ida was an evidence of his obsession towards a woman who he could never get and there for brutaly murdered her then made a lombic baby with her egg, that's Rose. He doesn't loves Rose bc she is his daughter, he loves her bc she is the only connection he could ever had with Ida, a trophy of some way. I think there was like one single reference that Albert had blood on his hands and that was in my side. And there for the ending has mixed messeges too, for those who knew the lore and for those who don't. For those who don't, it was just a father-daughter reunion. But for us who knew, we just witnessed one of the most dangerous man of the series return and basicly running free in the world while also having the rarest cube in his position.

I'm very exited for Underground Blossom and for how they will continue this ending and also about how this clif hanger will effect Rusty Lake itself, both the story and place.

[girlitfeelsgood]

I'm so nervous about writing an essay for the first time in two years. What if I do horribly 💀

[coollyinterferes]

oh my goodness haiiii speedwagon!! haiii jonathan !!!!

unprompted asks 【always accepting】

"OH! Hello there, mate! How is it goin'?" Speedwagon greets first, offering a gentle tip of his hat at the kind anon along with a big smile. "Gotta admit I wasn't expectin' t' see rejoice over our comin' back."

"Good evening, Anon friend. Thank you for the kind welcome back!" Comes Jonathan's turn to greet back. "We are truly thankful for your kind greetings, and we hope you've been doing well!"