#Ospreyonthemoon

[bobacupcake]

Whats your favourite thing that youve made?

that's a really hard one!!!!

i think my absolute favorite thing i made was a birthday present for carmela one year.... it wasnt the most polished thing but i made her a little Zone in unity with a telescope that let her go stargazing but all the constellations had little birthday messages from our friends in them...........

[felinefractious]

What cat breed interests you the most? I really like the rexes and their wavy fur. It fascinates me.

I don’t think there’s one, singular breed that interests me the most - I’m really interested in purebred cats and the world of the cat fancy as a whole, so my specific interest tends to change a little bot depending on what’s going on there…

If a new breed is recognized or being developed, if there’s drama surrounding a breed in the fancy, if we learn something new about the genetics or health or a breed, etc that’s going to be who I’m most interested in at the moment!

Rex cats are definitely cool, especially how such a similar mutation developed independently so many different times - the Devon Rex and Selkirk Rex coat are caused by seperate mutations on the same allele, Cornish Rex and German Rex are the same gene, LaPerm and Wirehair are their own mutations on totally seperate alleles from the rest and I don’t remember where the Ural Rex and Tennessee Rex fall.

[punkitt-is-here]

I made a susan taxpayer oc! he's an IT guy stuck in the sisyphean hell of tech maintenance.

DUNNO HOW I MISSED THIS.....I LOVE THE DESIGN

[markscherz]

How are so many frogs so round

They just want to make life easier for the physicists.

[speeps-highway]

Im thinking of playing sonic adventure 1. How do you think i should play it, and where from? I know its on steam but someone I know said not to use the steam version, but I'm not sure why. Do you know?

Get the Steam version, install this and you're peachy.

[revretch]

Saw this lady running around with her arms full of Baby today, thought you'd like to see her

Aw babies!!! Good cellar spider mom

[albertochimal]

Esta narración fue escrita aquí mismo, en Tumblr, por @sadoeuphemist y @ospreyonthemoon. Es una serie de variaciones sobre la antigua historia de "La rana y el escorpión" y la lleva por caminos de lo más inesperado. Yo hice la traducción y la publiqué en la antología virtual de mi sitio con permiso de elles.

[kcrossvine-art]

Do you have a tag you use for all your recipies?

#cross cooks redwall for the OG redwall series

#cross cooks lotr for the lord of the rings series

aaaand shit im realising i havent tagged any of my dungeon meshi cooking. ill edit those to be #cross cooks dungeon meshi later

[letmebegaytodd]

Benny update. My first day of playing Fallout New Benny went "Great,"

(Genuinely could not be fucked drawing the raiders so i just slapped them from screenshots but. Yeah you get the idea.)

Benny having 7 strength and melee as a tagged skill plus it being hard to find ammo for Maria means a lot of the time fights come down to desperate machete swinging. Poor benny. At least he usually wins! But mostly so far it's been "lets see how fast the ben-man can skedaddle his way in and out of where he needs to be when his smooth-talking inevitably fails to get him out of danger".

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Benny frantically running away from danger while Dick Dale's "Misirlou" plays in the background, exactly how I play the game at low levels asdfgyhjk

[leonawriter]

I started reading detective conan. Its fun, but my favourite bit is when he has one (1) alcohol and immediately thinks he's going to die. Very funny

I'm glad you're enjoying it! I haven't reached that part again yet, but I think I might remember the context. It'll be fun to see if I'm right!

[secondbeatsongs]

@ospreyonthemoon replied to your post “I might love sharknado too much you guys”:

But also, you could burn it to a disk!

​😭 so far the remaster is theatrical only, and might not get a physical or digital release at all - but I'm really hoping it does, because it was spectacular. it was Sharknado as it was always meant to be seen!

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Hi frank. What's your favourite song for sendoffs?

"Bye, Bye" -- which, while I'm thinking about it, is a really cute song

[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Climb aboard, then!” But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown. “Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.” 

“I can’t help it,” said the scorpion. “It’s my nature.”

___

…But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the frog felt a subtle motion on its back, and in a panic dived deep beneath the rushing waters, leaving the scorpion to drown.

“It was going to sting me anyway,” muttered the frog, emerging on the other side of the river. “It was inevitable. You all knew it. Everyone knows what those scorpions are like. It was self-defense.”

___

…But no sooner had they cast off from the bank, the frog felt the tip of a stinger pressed lightly against the back of its neck. “What do you think you’re doing?” said the frog.

“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

They swam in silence to the other end of the river, where the scorpion climbed off, leaving the frog fuming.

“After the kindness I showed you!” said the frog. “And you threatened to kill me in return?”

“Kindness?” said the scorpion. “To only invite me on your back after you knew I was defenseless, unable to use my tail without killing myself? My dear frog, I only treated you as I was treated. Your kindness was as poisoned as a scorpion’s sting.”

___

…“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

“You have a point,” the frog acknowledged. “But once we get to dry land, couldn’t you sting me then without repercussion?”

“All I want is to cross the river safely,” said the scorpion. “Once I’m on the other side I would gladly let you be.”

“But I would have to trust you on that,” said the frog. “While you’re pressing a stinger to my neck. By ferrying you to land I’d be be giving up the one deterrent I hold over you.”

“But by the same logic, I can’t possibly withdraw my stinger while we’re still over water,” the scorpion protested.

The frog paused in the middle of the river, treading water. “So, I suppose we’re at an impasse.”

The river rushed around them. The scorpion’s stinger twitched against the frog’s unbroken skin. “I suppose so,” the scorpion said.

___

A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Absolutely not!” said the frog, and dived beneath the waters, and so none of them learned anything.

___

A scorpion, being unable to swim, asked a turtle (as in the original Persian version of the fable) to carry it across the river. The turtle readily agreed, and allowed the scorpion aboard its shell. Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell. The turtle, swimming placidly, failed to notice.

They reached the other side of the river, and parted ways as friends.

___

…Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell.

The turtle, hearing the tap of the scorpion’s sting, was offended at the scorpion’s ungratefulness. Thankfully, having been granted the powers to both defend itself and to punish evil, the turtle sank beneath the waters and drowned the scorpion out of principle.

___

A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” sneered the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back.”

The scorpion pleaded earnestly. “Do you think so little of me? Please, I must cross the river. What would I gain from stinging you? I would only end up drowning myself!”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Even a scorpion knows to look out for its own skin. Climb aboard, then!”

But as they forged through the rushing waters, the scorpion grew worried. This frog thinks me a ruthless killer, it thought. Would it not be justified in throwing me off now and ridding the world of me? Why else would it agree to this? Every jostle made the scorpion more and more anxious, until the frog surged forward with a particularly large splash, and in panic the scorpion lashed out with its stinger.

“I knew it,” snarled the frog, as they both thrashed and drowned. “A scorpion cannot change its nature.”

___

A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. The frog agreed, but no sooner than they were halfway across the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown.

“I’ve only myself to blame,” sighed the frog, as they both sank beneath the waters. “You, you’re a scorpion, I couldn’t have expected anything better. But I knew better, and yet I went against my judgement! And now I’ve doomed us both!”

“You couldn’t help it,” said the scorpion mildly. “It’s your nature.” 

___

…“Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.”

“Alas, I was of two natures,” said the scorpion. “One said to gratefully ride your back across the river, and the other said to sting you where you stood. And so both fought, and neither won.” It smiled wistfully. “Ah, it would be nice to be just one thing, wouldn’t it? Unadulterated in nature. Without the capacity for conflict or regret.”

___

“By the way,” said the frog, as they swam, “I’ve been meaning to ask: What’s on the other side of the river?”

“It’s the journey,” said the scorpion. “Not the destination.”

___

…“What’s on the other side of anything?” said the scorpion. “A new beginning.”

___

…”Another scorpion to mate with,” said the scorpion. “And more prey to kill, and more living bodies to poison, and a forthcoming lineage of cruelties that you will be culpable in.”

___

…”Nothing we will live to see, I fear,” said the scorpion. “Already the currents are growing stronger, and the river seems like it shall swallow us both. We surge forward, and the shoreline recedes. But does that mean our striving was in vain?”

___

“I love you,” said the scorpion.

The frog glanced upward. “Do you?”

“Absolutely. Can you imagine the fear of drowning? Of course not. You’re a frog. Might as well be scared of breathing air. And yet here I am, clinging to your back, as the waters rage around us. Isn’t that love? Isn’t that trust? Isn’t that necessity? I could not kill you without killing myself. Are we not inseparable in this?”

The frog swam on, the both of them silent.

___

“I’m so tired,” murmured the frog eventually. “How much further to the other side? I don’t know how long we’ve been swimming. I’ve been treading water. And it’s getting so very dark.”

“Shh,” the scorpion said. “Don’t be afraid.”

The frog’s legs kicked out weakly. “How long has it been? We’re lost. We’re lost! We’re doomed to be cast about the waters forever. There is no land. There’s nothing on the other side, don’t you see!”

“Shh, shh,” said the scorpion. “My venom is a hallucinogenic. Beneath its surface, the river is endlessly deep, its currents carrying many things.” 

“You - You’ve killed us both,” said the frog, and began to laugh deliriously. “Is this - is this what it’s like to drown?” 

“We’ve killed each other,” said the scorpion soothingly. “My venom in my glands now pulsing through your veins, the waters of your birthing pool suffusing my lungs. We are engulfing each other now, drowning in each other. I am breathless. Do you feel it? Do you feel my sting pierced through your heart?”

“What a foolish thing to do,” murmured the frog. “No logic. No logic to it at all.”

“We couldn’t help it,” whispered the scorpion. “It’s our natures. Why else does anything in the world happen? Because we were made for this from birth, darling, every moment inexplicable and inevitable. What a crazy thing it is to fall in love, and yet - It’s all our fault! We are both blameless. We’re together now, darling. It couldn’t have happened any other way.”

___

“It’s funny,” said the frog. “I can’t say that I trust you, really. Or that I even think very much of you and that nasty little stinger of yours to begin with. But I’m doing this for you regardless. It’s strange, isn’t it? It’s strange. Why would I do this? I want to help you, want to go out of my way to help you. I let you climb right onto my back! Now, whyever would I go and do a foolish thing like that?”

___

A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”  

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Come aboard, then!” But no sooner had the scorpion mounted the frog’s back than it began to sting, repeatedly, while still safely on the river’s bank.

The frog groaned, thrashing weakly as the venom coursed through its veins, beginning to liquefy its flesh. “Ah,” it muttered. “For some reason I never considered this possibility.”

“Because you were never scared of me,” the scorpion whispered in its ear. “You were never scared of dying. In a past life you wore a shell and sat in judgement. And then you were reborn: soft-skinned, swift, unburdened, as new and vulnerable as a child, moving anew through a world of children. How could anyone ever be cruel, you thought, seeing the precariousness of it all?” The scorpion bowed its head and drank. “How could anyone kill you without killing themselves?”

[punkitt-is-here]

Question. When referring to the schrudler, is it firstname The lastname Schrudler, The Schrudler (title), or The Schrudler (firstname) (lastname not included) ?

He's The Schrudler

[letmebegaytodd]

Benny update!

He got radiation poisoning. Then got chased by scorpions. He paid to get the radiation cleared up then immediately got severe radiation poisoning again.

Even playing without a full deck he's still drawing nothing but jokers.

Solidarity 😔🤝😔

Benny is me playing baldur's gate last night and when met with an important skill check:

Rolling a nat 1, reloading the save. Rolling another nat 1, reloading the save again, rolling a 6 when I need a 7. Loading a different save, and rolling another nat 1

[leonawriter]

(in reference to this/image quotes in notes of post)

Yeah, I’ve noticed that. It’s interesting, because it seems to be very similar in some ways to how in P5 there’s “would someone for once think of what Akira wants” but it’s also really different?

Akira seems burdened by the responsibility of being the Leader, and every single one of his relationships starts out transactional, which informs how he sees his friendships in derivative works - when all bar one of his confidants starts with “if you do this for me, I’ll do this for you,” it’s easy to see it as transactional, and Akira’s wants and feelings coming lower down the list.

Yu... hm, I think the idea of him being the “leader” is less of a heavy weight in P4/G than it is for Akira in P5R. Yu and the Investigation Team know that lives hang in the balance, and if they don’t rescue that person, then they’re going to die. They know that. But at the same time, I feel like Yu doesn’t really have all of that responsibility weighing on him like “if I don’t make sure the team’s strong enough, if I don’t lead us right, then we’re going to get killed anyway.” I might be wrong, though - I haven’t read many, if any, fanworks specifically about him to know for sure.

The funny thing with the quests is that his life around Inaba feels more to me like Link in Hyrule than anything. Even for people who have nothing to do with his social links, he’s asked to do random quests. “Please find this” “I want to see/do this” “if you bring me [x] I will give you [y].” It’s just like Link!

If anything, I think Yu has a Helping People Thing just as much as Akira, just presenting in a different way.

Getting into headacanon territory here a bit, but the canon states his parents moved around a lot, and the manga shows them barely being around even when he was a kid, leaving him by himself much like Nanako, and the anime showed him afraid of his connections to people being weak and them just leaving him, so I’d find it easy to say he does all these things to feel useful to people. I even get the same way sometimes, just happy I could make an impact on someone. So I genuinely think he gets something positive out of his fetch-questing!

But that said... there is a valid point of- how much is he enjoying himself? Does he feel set apart from people, even his friends, not because of his Wildcard powers, but simply because he’s all too aware he’s going to be leaving again. In fact, his Shadow in the anime says that very thing- 

"I was afraid of a future without my friends, afraid of leaving everyone behind and moving forward on my own...I don't want to be alone again, I've been alone, and I won't go back!"

So.... as that’s said right at the end of the (base) game, I have to assume he’s only truly facing those feelings at the end of the year, more or less. It makes me wonder how he’s going to be after he’s finished everything, after he’s faced himself, and once he’s accepted that he might move on but he won’t lose the people he’s gained. There’s many times in the game I’ve seen where it says Yu just doesn’t have the [courage] to say or do something, like for instance not eating the girls’ food, and I wonder how much of that was “I don’t want to give them an excuse to decide they don’t want to be my friend once they don’t need me anymore.”

All this said, I’ve still only gone through the anime and the end of the Mitsuo case in the game, so there may be things I’m unaware of, but... yeah, “but what about their feelings” is probably a common Wildcard problem, at this point. Curse of the silent protagonist thing, too.