#Tuesday 14

[starlitcrows]

reap what you sow.

[koijikido]

🔹Tummy Tuesday🔹

or: dancing bun ☺️I never participated in this actually. So here we go! have a tummy free dancing bun! 💙

[desperatecheesecubes]

Oh shit are they about to make Cissie being Oliver’s daughter cannon? That would be so funny

[nina-ya]

Do we think law is an early riser……

[bk-179]

(this is in-universe too, let my man discover Ms paint and happiness. Strawberry has a fursona too and they do art trades with eachother)

[thefirstknife]

(Taking this out of the reblog chain because Post Too Big) So, I crawled through my old screenshots and clips and the only screens of Saint's Tomb that I have are either from Not Even The Darkness or the actual mission to rescue Saint during Season of Dawn. I tried trawling through youtube uploads and I thought that I found something that would answer the question--I was ready to eat crow on Saint being gone and chalk it up to Dunning-Kruger effect on my part--but it was a video of doing the Mercury Flashpoint from Day 1 of Season of Dawn, rendering it moot. So the question of "Did Saint's Body Remain In All Instances of The Dark Future Or Not" is something I have to punt to fandom at large ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I did, however, find screens relating to the Perfect Paradox quest during Season of Dawn, which look to be relevant re: diverging Timelines:

Thanks for looking into it! I am also very intrigued by the possibility of them actually changing original stuff to reflect the things we've done in Dawn, but alas. With 4 years gone since this content was available I understand it might be almost impossible to figure this one out. Unless someone finds something, I think the best is to refer to what happened lore-wise; aka we never went back to that specific spot in lore, even if in-game the area may have been reused at some point. That is, until (if?) anything states it explicitly.

For all intents and purposes, the body should've been gone after Dawn.... technically. Depends on how they intend to deal with the the fact that it was secured in a specific simulation in the Forest; maybe the body is meant to stay there forever because it's a part of the simulation now so no matter what, that snapshot of reality is preserved in the Forest? And ofc, it depends on how they want to deal with the timeline stuff.

Speaking of! I remember this part from the quest and I didn't want to go into it back when I made the big post about Saint and how we saved him, mostly because it raises several different questions that would lead me into several new tangents, about details that may or may not be relevant, and may or may not have been planned out in such detail to begin with. There's always been a few questions I had about this.

First, Osiris specifies that this Paradox is from an "altered form of your Light that dates back to the Dark Age." That implies that this Paradox was pulled from our hands when we were in the past. Osiris is also confused; at this point he doesn't actually know that the Guardian Saint spoke of as having saved him and inspired him was us, so that explains the line of "What timeline exists that I have yet to see, that places you in the Dark Age?"

Second, the multiple timelines and us grabbing guns from them is more or less canon. So us grabbing a Paradox from another timeline that alerts Osiris to something odd going on is not too bad. But does it matter? I can't figure this one out mostly because of how the lore and the quest was otherwise fully focused on the original Paradox, the one we made in the Infinite Forge.

It's in the lore on the gun:

All I have left is this weapon. The Cryptarchs say you crafted it yourself, built it out of scraps and Light and sheer will, inside the Infinite Forge.

So the gun he has could be identified (at least according to the Cryptarchs) as having been made in the Infinite Forge. And then in the Impossible Task:

The Shotgun you crafted in the Infinite Forge is reacting to the Sundial! An onboard transponder is broadcasting coordinates: a path through the Sundial, crossing two time periods. The prophecy blueprint you used to create the Perfect Paradox must have included this broadcast.

Ghost specifies that we go into the Sundial following a signal from the Paradox we crafted in the Infinite Forge, not the one we pulled from the Sundial. It's also tied to the prophecy tied to the weapon, apparently. So what's the deal with the Perfect Paradox from another timeline we got from the Sundial if we didn't even take that to save Saint?

Is this because, no matter what, at some point in some timeline, Perfect Paradox has to always be crafted by us? Perfect Paradox was crafted by the YW in the Infinite Forge, in every timeline, no matter the outcome? So no matter which one is pulled from the Sundial, it still has the same Light signature and the prophecy and everything? Did we take our original (from Curse) to Saint or did we just take this one we pulled from the Sundial in Dawn that Osiris had to restore first?

But no matter how that's done, we craft it from the remains picked up from Saint's body, which means that no matter what, in every timeline, we somehow deliver this gun to Saint, and he dies with it. Except... Of course. We saved him in at least one them.

Does any of this even matter? Does any of this make any difference to the outcome and to Saint's fate? Or to the situation Saint is in right now?

Osiris says this at the end of the quest:

"Sometimes my research brings more questions than answers."

That's so true bestie. But it's also a pretty good indication that this whole situation is maybe confusing on purpose. As in, the characters don't know either, and there's no way for them to know or really test this, and we're not really meant to know the details, though obviously by the Traveler we will try.

I'm assuming we'll get some word on some of this next week. I'm not expecting a fully detailed dissertation, but at least something on the question of timelines and if the different timelines matter(ed) in this case with the Paradox and saving Saint. Maybe we even find out (here comes the tangents) what the hell was this about:

"And how many timelines did you thoughtlessly tether to our own for this weapon? Our world now bears the strain of how many additional realities in exchange for this hollow abomination?"

We'll definitely be getting a new Perfect Paradox so maybe through that, we'll find something out about the timelines.

Overall, the details of this whole thing are fairly confusing, though I'm not expecting much else from a plot about time travel with a paradox in a setting where multiple timelines are canon. I think some of it will never be truly solved, which in a way fits; we can't get proof from other timelines. But on the other hand: I want to know. Maybe next week will clear at least some parts of this up once and for all.

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa)

(Photo from Northwest Widlife Online)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Western Canada; Alaska

Size (Weight/Length)- 2 kg; 35 cm 

Diet- Leaves; Fruit; Bark; Roots; Ferns

Cool Facts- Despite being called the mountain beaver and looking sort of like a beaver, these rodents are more closely related to squirrels than they are to North American beavers. Mountain beavers do not build dams or chew down trees and their tails are more of a stub. They instead climb trees in search of leaves or wander the ground while munching on toxic ferns when out of their burrow. Their thumbs are semi-opposable, letting the Mountain beaver hold a snack while eating. And boy do they eat, up to 9 hours per day. Young are born as twins or triplets and leave the burrow after only two months. They are one of the longer living rodents of up to 10 years.

Rating- 11/10 (Considered to be a living fossil.)

[folkloregirlfriend]

i hate feeling ambitionless aimless the future is so bleak

[goldenpinof]

Halloween baking on Oct 31st or else!!

[shionxion]

It's a family thing lol (Poor, Eric)

[desperatecheesecubes]

So Kon didn’t get taken when Jon did, but Mercy says she could only save Clark or Jon. This implies she just fucking left Kon to die which is somehow even funnier to me

[asleepinawell]

What changes to existing jobs/roles are you hoping to see in 7.0 and/or what new abilities do you want for existing jobs/roles?

since it's impossible to make this a poll, I'm tossing it out and hoping people will reply or comment

asking in terms of enjoyment and casual play, not optimizing savage content dps or whatever

feel free to write paragraphs. don't yell at other people this is just for fun. no wrong answers

[notsocooljess]

WIP File Game

thanks for the tags!! @thesunpersists & @littlemarianah 💗

rules: list the names/titles of docs in your WIP folder + open your inbox to asks about them!

(i don’t think my WIPs have changed much since the last time i did this. i’ve been in a slump 🫠)

tagging: @tetheredfeathers @rainymyx and anyone else that wants to join!

[knightofleo]

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Rosy-faced Lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis)

(Photo from eBird)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Southwestern Africa

Size (Weight/Length)- 17 cm

Diet- Seeds; Fruits; Leaves

Cool Facts- These little guys are a personal favorite of mine! Rosy-faced lovebirds mate for life and are almost always seen in pairs. They are known for their adorable sleeping position where they sit next to each other on a branch and press their faces together. Both males and females have identical coloration, with a stunning red head and blue tail. You know there’s a lovebird around when you hear its shrieking call. These birds are very popular in the pet industry but oftentimes people don’t know the difficulties of owning a long living parrot. This has led to pets being released into cities around the United States and Central America.

Rating- 13/10 (Happy Valentine’s Day!)

[iamnotyetoliverstarksgirlfriend]

Day #148

I am not yet Oliver Starks girlfriend.