#Slowly Decay
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I love how Jack is like 'I know everything.... I have so many secrets.... I know what you're all up to behind my back.... oh, Ianto? Dunno, he was running around doing something, looked happy, didn't want to bother him. Maybe he built a nuclear reactor in the basement.'
And the fact that Ianto is the only one Jack shares the most horrifying secrets of Torchwood with??????? Even Gwen had to figure out things he already knew (Adrift episode) on her own because Jack shields the others from that knowledge.
(Excerpt from the book 'Slowly Decay')
Ianto knows all(?) of the Torchwood building, runs the archives, knows about the other Torchwood bases and 'subsidiary organizations' (if I can call it that), knows about people cryogenically frozen
Girrrrl, he could lead Torchwood himself if needed, because in the absence of Jack he becomes the most competent employee????
Sometimes I think about how important Ianto actually is to Torchwood right from the start, even if he says he just makes coffee
#torchwood#ianto jones#gwen cooper#jack harkness#so many thoughts#adrift#torchwood books#Slowly Decay#correct me if i'm wrong#open for discussion#Please share your thoughts#I think Ianto should be paid very well for his work
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the trees still wither, with or without you
#grian#goodtimeswithscar#desert duo#double life smp#trafficblr#咸鱼.jpg#sorry the demons won . but i wanted to doodle something fun#subtext -> the fallen leaves/decaying branches are supposed to also look like the bronchi of your lungs#and both of their lungs are decaying slowly because neither wants to stop the dance they're parading around each other
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throws low quality werewolf jpg at you
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DPXDC Prompt #97
The Justice League fought hard against the anti ecto acts but unfortunately it wasn’t enough and the laws were passed anyways but not before a clause was added to them that states the JL had the right to pull a ghost out of a facility of they had potential to work for them. When they see the potential hero Phantom is caught by the GIW they of course do their best to acquire him. Unfortunately the government sees Phantom as JL property now instead of his own person. Phantom seemed content being trapped on the watchtower and explained it was better than whatever the GIW was planning. Superman thinks something weird is going on with the ghost as when he supposedly went to bed in the room he was assigned he’d temporarily gain a heartbeat again. Constantine is just glad the young prince hasn’t decided to kill anyone in the US congress yet for passing such a ridiculous law. Batman’s adoption senses are tickling.
#dp x dc prompt#dp x dc#dc x dp#danny fenton#danny phantom#poor danny#writing prompt#I hear no Batman no! In my head in the same tone as the no rootbeer no! Meme#ghost prince danny#I already have my idea for tomorrow and it’s going to be a wild one heavily cracked#I know I’m insane but you can’t stop me#Is no one going to take the internet away from me?#my asks are open#I want to draw more but I have no clue what#Does anyone else feel like they’re slowly losing their mind? Because I still feel like I’m slowly going insane#Also does anyone else feel just a little disappointed that we’re in the timeline without any superpowers or hero’s?#I feel like my body is slowly decaying and I can do nothing but watch as the world slowly spins as everyone gets mad at each other over tim
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i think it's so fucked up i bought a gamer laptop in hopes of it being pretty sturdy only for it to kaput on me in two years LMFAO
#i rmmbr when electronics would last me 8+ yrs...#either that or me as a child just didn't particularly notice what a slowly decaying computer was like LMAO#TBF i should just invest in a desktop now but i had no choice back then cos i needed a mobile work station :pensive:#i also now understand why ppl have sole computers dedicated to just doing One Thing now. but that's a Luxury LOL#crazy to me to even own one computer#tbd maybe
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All that’s left Adrift for fifty years.
#Soul King Brook#Rumbar Pirates#brook op#One Piece#OP Fanart#myart#This was a piece I was going to do for inktober but time slipped away from me and I wanted to give it the time and attention it deserved~#Most of the straw hats all have heartbreakingly tragic backstories but Brook's is one that is so much so that it is hard to truly imagine#50 fucking years all alone and never able to see the sun. Left to slowly lose his mind surrounded by the decaying bodies of his beloved crew#I legit cried when the enemies in Wano tried to trick Brook with illusions of his old crew. THAT WAS FUCKED UP.#Thriller Bark
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wow the years really don't stop coming and they don't stop coming
#ramble#i'm 21 now yay#slowly decaying#my parents got me a balloon though!! i've never had a birthday balloon before
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Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol
Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.
I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).
The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).
A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).
All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.
The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.
An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.
At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.
(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).
They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:
(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)
The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.
The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).
(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).
The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.
This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.
Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).
This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).
#I'm kind of fascinated by the quasi-religious beliefs that have developed around recreational hallucinogen use (ESPECIALLY DMT)#In contrast to like. Uses of DMT-containing substances like ayahuasca for long-established religious purposes#So this concept is basically 'what if a religion was FORMED from pretty much the ground up out of DMT usage'#Like the common 'entities' people encounter in recreational use being identified as the Real Gods and producing a religious worldview#that is mostly rooted in this experience (while still influenced by other cultural factors)#Also the like. Meta going on here is that the fungus is a 'living god' and the oldest one on the planet#It is a VERY rare type of living god that is 'created' by non-sophont (non-sentient even) beings and exists as a mycelial network#that perfectly supports and protects an entire forest. Basically a god for plants. It is so deeply interconnected with its forest that the#usual power sophont belief would have over it has basically zero influence. This is absolutely the closest thing to A God in canon.#(While still not being a Creator/sapient/or even supernatural within the framework of this reality. Just VERY unique.)#The Ur-Tree has always been above water and grows very very slowly over the course of millenia by kind of 'pulling up' plant life from#the ground (so you see ancient long extinct plants in its higher branches and contemporary plants close to/on the ground)#The mycelium helps shield and feed extinct plant life that could not otherwise survive in the contemporary environment#And the forest is big enough to produce its own weather (it is a rainforest and has been ever since the capacity for rainforests Existed)#It's not really a tree at all in any normal sense but an amalgam of thousands of types of plants-#Some growing on top of others and some interwoven beyond any distinction. It does form a superficially treelike structure#(mostly in order to physically support its own mass) with a very wide 'trunk' and massive 'roots' (which end in actual roots).#It feeds on its own perpetually shedding and decaying 'body' and any animal life that dies in the forest is VERY rapidly#decayed and absorbed by the mycelial network (to the point that many large scavengers cannot survive in this forest)#(If you kill a cow and leave it on the ground for just 1/2 hour you'll see little strands of mycelium already growing up around it)#The fungus fruits and spores on a very infrequent basis (scale of ten-thousands of years) which causes the forest to very slowly spread#Fortunately this isn't really an existential threat because the spread is VERY slow (even on a geological scale) and the fungus#itself is rather mundane in nature and cannot usually compete against established fungal networks in other places.#Though there are little Ur-Tree mycelium groves and woodlands in other parts of the world that may (over untold millennia)#generate their own Ur-Trees (there's already a few but they are all MUCH smaller and not readily recognized as the same thing)#WRT THE TRIP:#Most of what I'm describing is a DMT trip but consumption of high doses of Ur-Tree mycelium has both mundane psychoactive effects#and IS kind of the person experiencing the fungus' entire lifetime and seeing flashes of the world's actual evolutionary history.#The amount of material knowledge that can be accurately gleaned from this this is VERY limited though.
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If I catch fire, then I'll change my aim // Throw my troubles at the pearly gates
#xiaolin showdown#chase young#hannibal roy bean#my art#lyrics: burning pile by mother mother#imagine having so much contempt for each other#they don't even realize their abled bodies slowly decaying in the process
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ok super rough doodle SO SORRY but now im thinking abt the skeletons in the abyss now. that one aubrey skeleton.. do they decay you think?
#me when i decay slowly in a dark abyss and i do not understand the reason as to why.#why wont omori help her? she hasnt done anything wrong. please get her out. omori leaves her yet again.its so cold here.#omori#omori character#aubrey omori
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the most accidentally hilarious moment in NATM 3 is as the tablet is dying and Larry is cradling Dexter while the audience has this clear view of Ahkmenrah, a teenager who was murdered thousands of years ago, is very, very, slowly collapsing to the floor as his body reverts to a decayed mummified corpse. And nobody acknowledges it.
#I’m actually not joking it is funny like I can’t help but laugh#it’s such a perfect shot it’s like a meme.#Ahks like “don’t mind me I’ll just slowly decay into mummified remains”#At least carry Dex over there dude 😭#The thing that interests me is the others are wax. They just freeze and that’s that#But Ahkmenrah was an actual guy; died was mummified comes back to life nightly#Something I think about a lot is that Ahk would have to put the wrappings he was buried in back on every night before sunrise#Because it would cause a shit storm if someone opened up his sarcophagus during the day and he DIDNT have them on. and that is hilarious#They’re like his pajamas guys. Suns gonna rise soon time to put on something cozy. And I love that for hi#One can assume he’s taken them off and putting them back on every night he’s woken up in the past 4000 years which does actually make sense#Since you know he turns into back into an ancient corpse which are not known to be sturdy. Probably better to have all that#Natm#night at the museum#natm ahkmenrah#ahkmenrah#Larry Daley#natm Dexter
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hear me out
sunshipduo zombie apocolypse au but guqqie is partly infected and slowly becoming more and more zombie
aimsey tries their best to protect guqqie from other survivors and guqqie in turn does the same (she has gotten very good murdering, being part zombie has a few perks)
#sunshipduo#sunshipduofanart#zombie apocolypse au#guqqie#aimsey#aimsey fanart#guqqie fanart#im so insane about this#just imagine the possibilities#the angst of guqqie's infection growing more and more and being helpless to stop it#aimsey who doesnt have anyone else seeing their partner slowly decaying in front of their eyes#dying is one thing but seeing it happen and seeing your loved one slowly become a little bit closer to the point of no return#they do have the most energy#sunshipduo zombie au#SunshipInfectedAu#apple's cool and awesome art
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i wish i had the energy to end it rn
#actually bpd#actually mentally ill#bpd#bpd fp#actually borderline#bpd vent#bpd shitposting#bpd favorite person#bpd problems#bpd mood#i really really really do#but i have no motivation for anything so here i lay..decaying slowly#i want this to end#all of it
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baal and aym forever....ok‼️‼️
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they should let you grow weed in stardew valley
#and i explicitly want it to be illegal.#by this i mean. in a small town that's slowly decaying. i should be allowed to break bad and it should be allowed to make the town worse.#i need to play joja route i think
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arthur morgan got me feelin unwise. and by that i mean bawlin my fuckin eyes out
#youre a good man arthur morgan#jesus fucking christ. jesus. god.#this fucking game.#completing every fucking quest in chapter 6 with tears in my eyes#i dont know whats gonna happen by the end but i have my suspicions#god this is going to break me so bad#whoever that malevolent x rdr2 mutual was. pspsppsps#i NEED arthur morgan and arthur lester to talk about growth. and mistakes and regrets and being a good person and what that means#i mean they wouldnt. arthur morgan wouldnt talk about that even at gunpoint i reckon#but OGH. MY FUCKING GOD.#niki.rambles#rdr2#i need to walk into the ocean. i need to grow roots into the earth and slowly decay.
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