#a lot of words

[jellion0345]

"It began here. It will be end here. Have you any parting words?"

I met Morrowind a year ago and he has held a special place in my heart ever since 🌙⭐

It was supposed to be a simple sketch based on a screenshot from the game, but I got a little bit caught up in the process ahaha, I drew it last month, but now is the perfect moment to show this page!

Of course, I'm showing this screenshot from the game, then I went to visit Dagot Ur for the first time, well, then I squealed loudly in surprise because I came without Sunder and Keening, and this changes his appeal to us as we go to him 😳and then I walked into this room and saw him, I even have somewhere recorded my first reaction "why is he so tall???" 😳😳😳

Oh, it's all such a long story! But that's why I love Morrowind!

[elise-the-blind]

So I’ve seen some artists show their idea of the next generation of Jak and Daxter aka the future kids Jak and his friends might have. Have you ever had thought about or drawn Jak and Keira kid and Tess x Dax kid?

ok, imma gonna have to admit something since this isn't the first times I've been asked this, but I actually have never made or had much interest in making fankids. I honestly dont know why I lack this brain chemical, with the amount of headcannons I come up with this should be right up my alley, but no.

But whatever, I'll think up as much as I can for this, just know that for my AU, its very unlikely these characters will be a part of any of it.

Damascus (son of Jak and Keira)

Named after Damas (because I think its funny). Grew up copying his dads constant scowl, but has never had an angry thought in his life. Took up his mums love of gadgets, focusing on precursor tech and will sneak around the monk temple for info (the monks are aware of this but dont mind, alittle confused on why he insists on sneaking in). Even though not mute he's still the least likely to speak out of all four. Was told a story about lurker sharks (probably told by Daxter) and now has a fear of the ocean.

Jak is very, VERY careful with what stories he tells his son and what lessons he might take from them and gives evil eyes to anyone who tries suggesting Damascus does the same hero stuff Jak did as a kid. Bro knows how badly all of that can go and does not want any of that for his son. A result of that is Damascus doesn't have a lot of experience with eco, only what he knows from Keira's family (green eco for first aid). He's only heard about light eco from the monks and he DEFINITELY doesn't know nadda about using dark eco. Damascus has only rarely seen the dark Jak, and always when he's in danger, so thinks of it just as "man my dad is so cool he can kick the butt of anyone that messes with me".

Has any of Jak's dark eco been passed on to Damascus? Something to ponder, I'm sure it wont affect him too badly.

The Triplets (Tess and Daxter's kids)

Cally (bow), Cash (piercings), Cade (gloves): They're the offspring of a sarcastic ego-filled furball and a gun manic bossbitch, you think any of them would be normal? no. All three are all different levels of shitshow, and are determined to make that everyone else's problem.

Cade is the honorary 'nerd' of the family, fixated on studying precursors and the worlds inner workings. Had an existential crisis at age 6 after thinking about whether or not they had any sort of human DNA from both their parents not being born an ottsel. He always follows Damascus around when he's snooping, making their own sworn oath of secrecy. Cade will sometimes ask his dad about dark eco which all of the time loops to "shit stings, stay out of it son." Once asked uncle Jak, got shut down real fast (bro you're giving your uncle Gol and Maia flashbacks pls stop he's too old for this).

Cash took the love of demolition from Tess and spends alot of time hanging around uncle Torn and aunt Ashelin learning about military mechanics and tactics used by the guard. She gets super hyped when hearing battle stories and sometimes pesters Damascus about anything his pa might have told him about metalheads. Because of the closeness Cash has with the leaders of Haven, she's one of the only kids that know in more detail about Jak's dark side and see's her uncle as a much more intimidating figure. She doesn't plan on telling Cade any of that despite his studies, she's alittle worried he'll get himself into trouble.

Cally got all the showboat center stage child energy from her dad, serving as the distraction for when the trio are doing crimes. Cally acts alot like 'Precursor Legacy' Daxter, always talking, always going for everyone's attention. Alot of that's an act of course, and Cally is often stuck running around making sure her siblings aren't caught in any mess or that the blame of any damage is shifted from them to someone else/her. Cally makes sure to involve Damascus in the chaos the three get into occasionally, even if he doesn't act interested. She once tired racing with Keira for the sake of fame, and while racing was dropped because of a fear of crashing, Cally is very skilled with vehicles and can speed across the city if she ever needs to get anywhere. She knows all secret paths in Haven and Spargus, if you're a target you will never get away, she will catch you.

Everyone takes part in keeping an eye on all of them (especially the triplets) but Sig makes sure that Damascus gets home safe each night, wouldn't want the past to repeat itself would we.

Pretty sure that's all I got. Maybe I'll do more with these guys if there's enough interest. Otherwise I'm back to comic stuff.

[justanechoflower]

if your Asriel or Flowey...you're the best. the goodest of bois...if you want to be terrifying then you are...but you are just ...you

[kobbers]

I continue to love Dwarf Fortress' ability to tell you a story, if you're paying attention.

My current fortress is my first time back in DF in a good 5+ years, and obviously first fort in the shiny new Steam version. I've been a little impulsively reckless because I tried out the tutorial, which autopicks your starting location and supplies. I breached the caverns, had some Fun sending squads after forgotten beasts a little above their level, and after an ettin dropped an adamantine slab on death, that winter's goblin raid spiked to ~100 strong. Most of my soldiers were wiped out stopping the wave of goblins who'd managed to climb over my half-roofed-pasture walls, but the fortress endured.

We've been bunkered in pretty safely ever since, while I try to rebuild my military. The exterior has been secured and meatier defenses have been installed, and the caverns have been walled off while grotesque procedurally-generated monsters roam around down there and tear up all the native serpent-people and troglodytes. I'm not exploiting any mechanics to train my soldiers more quickly (yet), so day-to-day fortress management has settled into a largely hands-off routine.

Except for one very unhappy dwarf, one of my tavern keepers, who began appearing in the logs having mental breakdowns (stumbling around obliviously). These finally escalated to a full tantrum, where he started fistfighting everyone in sight until he'd burned off enough anger to calm down. The disorderly conduct landed him in jail - he served his time, but lost his cool again soon after. This time, he fatally paralyzed a fellow citizen in the brawl.

Back to jail he went. Desperate to try and manage his mood before his mental health reached irreversible lows, I sent dwarves to smooth and engrave his prison cell (dwarves appreciate art!), and build him a bed (to avoid negative thoughts about sleeping on the floor). Unfortunately he threw another tantrum while this work was going on, and killed another dwarf who was just trying to draw pretty pictures on his wall. (Interestingly, this all still counts as "disorderly conduct" and not murder to the justice system, probably because his intent was only to punch people. It just so happened that he punched them in the spine, and injured the nerves that allowed their lungs to function.)

I looked at the unmet needs in his profile. What could I do to help resolve some of the things that were making him unhappy, to help pull him out of the emotional pit he was in? A too-long unfulfilled need to be with family caught my eye. Sometimes you can't do much about this, because the dwarf left their family behind to emigrate to the fortress, but when I checked his relationships I saw his two children were babies. Probably in the fortress, then! Where?

When I zoomed to the location of one of his children, it took my cursor to an empty tile in the caverns, and I had a full-on flashback, suddenly realizing who this man was.

Forgotten beast, four years ago. A giant three-eyed spider invaded the caverns. I sent our primary squad of nearly-legendary fighters to engage, but there was a problem. It was sheltering up in the mushroom trees, spitting from range, and most of our troops used melee weapons. The captain of the guard threw herself into battle regardless, climbing into the mushroom tree and braving the beast's globs of deadly spittle. During the fight, the creature ripped one of the newborn twins she was carrying away from her (dwarven mothers, istg), and threw it out of the tree to the cavern floor. Then it did the same with the other twin. It followed them down and easily stomped them to death, and the captain flew into a rage. Their duel was sadly brief, but unlike so many fights where the loser passes out from pain/exhaustion and gets coup de grâce'd, she stayed on her feet and fought to her last breath. Her squad was able to finish the kill after she perished.

This was why our troublemaker was having such a hard time. I'd built a fancy tomb for my badass captain and the babies who fell in battle back when it happened, and this tavern keeper was the husband left behind. As goblins seiged the fortress and his pining for family only intensified over time, he'd finally reached his limit and could no longer hold it together.

I went back to trying to fix him, with the understanding that it was probably a lost cause. Maybe making sure he could have booze in jail instead of water would help? I waited for his next tantrum, where he helplessly canceled tasks to fight people because he was chained firmly to the prison wall. Then once he calmed, I swooped in and made a stockpile for alcohol that he could reach. Now to wait for someone to bri-- wait, what are those combat logs? There's no new tantrum ongoing, what...?

Turned out he'd earned a beating in addition to his prison sentence this time, and a fortress guard had finally come by to deliver it. The guard was armed, but as this was just a disciplinary beating, she only used her fists. Unfortunately she was still too strong, and it was the tavern keeper's turn to get a badly bruised spinal cord. I deflated a bit as I watched him suffocate, but couldn't help but feel it was a little bittersweet. He was no longer left behind.

[richardazer]

Blame the mlp smile virus | my little worms | rainbow radiation for this

Kara (stressed)

Status: non infected, immune.

Health: 90%

Sanity: 98%

Thirst: 9%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: axe; maps.

Gumi (paranoid, scared)

Status: non infected.

Health: 100%

Sanity: 94%

Thirst: 0%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: med kit; personal documents of the group; multi-tool.

Pete (anxious, tired)

Status: non infected

Health: 98%

Sanity: 92%

Thirst: 10%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: guitar case with weapons; ammo; rope; climbing equipment.

Sparklez (hungry)

Status: second stage infected, sanity intact with minor changes

Health: 80%

Sanity: 60%

Thirst: 20%

Hunger: 65%

Inventory: sleeping bag; portable stove; gas can; water; cans of food; blanket.

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Got bitten when they were escaping the gun store. Immediate medical attention to the wound stopped the rot of soft tissue, bearable weakness.

Infection reached stage 2, most people would have gave into the hunger, Cap remained sane and in control of his body though urages have affected personality. Physical activity keeps him sane, assigned to do all heavy lifting.

[tasteslikesoap]

i think about how pink pantheress said if you can listen to kpop, you can listen to anything and i think about how i agree. but i also think about how incredibly frustrating kpop can be when it comes to boy groups.

if you're in it for the music, boy group kpop sounds like a slap in the face to your intelligence and it comes from a deeply misogynistic place. young girls are an impressionable market. send hot boys with too tight pants their way and they will buy any garbage. it's loveless music.

i think about how people will defend skz to the ends of the earth calling it "noise music". i wish that were true! i wish it was weird and funky and ambient and dronal! but instead you can practically hear the complacency in the production. "fuck it, no one is actually here to listen. throw in some more air horns". surprisingly, i feel like girl groups are far more experimental.

obviously, there are bg songs that i think are fantastic. but i can count them on one hand. i just wish that boy groups had the freedom to really sink their teeth into what kpop is and can be. i think about enhypen's vampire concept and how there's so many opportunities to make something new and interesting. to infuse bauhaus or early mcr or she wants revenge into modern kpop. i DREAM of the day they're allowed to be ugly and cover a song like "i never told you what i do for a living". yet every album roll-out is just more placid shopping-in-the-mall music. it's like watching a rabbit blindly chase a carrot, but that carrot is "these boys have got to sexier"- completely forgetting that they're here to perform songs.

[thingsidrawgohere]

So I made another art book. It's not a companion piece for Second Head but it does lurk behind it.

I collected the EnGaGeMeNt for SH (up a date), removed all user names, and categorized each piece according to patterns presented or random observations or just my feelings regarding it. And then I bolted the book shut.

There is one personal copy. This is not a commercial product (that's weird) nor for profit (that's weirder). There will never be another. The master files are deleted. I make no claims to others copyright, even as this is a derivative, transformative work of artistic intent. Provided I am fortunate, I will never open this book again.

Take-aways from the categorization: We say 'cool' a shockingly high amount. People are so nice, I needed five different colors of tabs to mark all the 'nice stuff'. There were a lot more people unfamiliar with 'grew a second head' than I expected.

You know, this was going to be a drastically different project. I was coming off a bizarre couple days, after thousands of people came to call. I'm a child of sloth and habit; I don't truck with this many people. On top of being- Well, let's describe it as 'misunderstood'. I was feeling overwhelmed. Helpless. Angry, if I'm honest.

But as I went through all the comments and tags and- charts, I realized it wasn't as bad as I thought. Isn't that funny? Reading people's personal history was really quite nice. I remain impressed by some of y'all's fucking gall but most folks were just as confused as I was. The human condition, I suppose.

Should it need said, I don't enjoy explaining to strangers I'm not the thirty-first stupidest person presently on Earth. Nor do I enjoy realizing I simply have to give up that pursuit in order to not go nuts.

I researched the phrase 'grow a second head' with the intended use-case Before I spent weeks on a book about it. I cannot, Can Not believe my fellow travelers thought I'm digging through fucking Rick and Morty incest fics without doing Any diligence. I am not That type of troubled.

(Of course, that doesn't change the fact that my first known introduction to the phrase was, Yes, fanfic. Only Grace Jones can step me, stranger.)

Ultimately, I decided that the research wasn't relevant to the project as presented. 'It's the repetition' I thought. 'Folks will get it' I thought.

And thusly- Twist- I Am the thirty-first stupidest person on Earth to people who have immediately forgotten me. Now, obviously, no matter how clear I thought I was, I did not communicate appropriately, given the repeated misunderstanding. After all, I'm Still, To This Day, Even With The Updates, getting folks explaining 'it's not from fanfic'. But it is wild. The response was, in of itself, mimetic in a way. A project about repetition and propagation and yeah, imitation, in culture did- This. It's very nearly a fucking larf. Har. Har.

That's why Here is my little artist's statement. In a separate post. With my feelings of disappointment, vanity, bewildered annoyance, my personhood. And over There are the pictures. The signified and the signifier, detached. Throw the CONTENT in one way and run in the other. It's not even that people were 'mean' or 'ignorant'. They were absolutely not. I can't stress that enough. There's simply too much. We must hoard our full attention for our highest joys. We live like this now.

This is a lot of words for Tumblr (historically, a failure point) yet this whole thing is For Me. I'm having a good time. This isn't a problem. Argentina, it's cool. I'm simply working through art-school-based solutions to my feelings. Is this shitty? I don't know. But dot dot dot. If I Did go Joker Mode, I assure you it would be Cesar Romero.

Anyways, I did a bit of research and dug up the definitive origin of 'grew a second head'. It's true. It's in a book.

[fanta2y]

alright guys i don’t usually post myself on here but i need a place to infodump in peace and my friends are tired of me…sooooo :) this is anime spoilers kinda, im caught up with the anime and sorta caught up with the manga for jjk so proceed with caution!!

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what i love most about the parallel or the writing choice to express sukuna as fire and destruction and yuuji as like a snow storm and ice is because of the differences that with which they are perceived.

fire is know to be bad, it always has been bad and the people who enjoy it, more often than not, find joy in the destruction but there is no one who doesn’t believe fire DOESNT hurt like if you touch it you get burned. this matches sukunas power type and just overall personality well, you get too close he will kill you unless you have some use to him.

with yuuji he’s nice he’s sweet he’s cute he has a strong moral compass, much like a snow day you don’t think anything particularly wrong with a snow day you can enjoy it and have fun and it won’t hurt you at first. but spend too long in the snow, and then you get hypothermia. much like how mahito pushes yuuji too far and gets his ass beat. also the way hypothermia works, right before like it gets REALLY bad your brain tricks itself into thinking your warm. like the parts of your body that are experiencing hypothermia will begin to feel warm again it won’t feel as bad and most people are tricked into thinking everything is okay,

i like this because it’s similar to the way mahito drew himself into this false sense of security when it came to fighting yuuji. he knew he wouldn’t go too far or do certain things because of his morale compass, and much like how you get warm before you die of hypothermia. mahito got comfortable pushing yuji because he convinced himself he wouldn’t fight back, not in anyway that would hurt mahito permanently. until he did, until it was too late.

UGH GEGE YOUR A GENIUS .

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i’ve always had like a thought about the fact that yuuji was perceived as ice and sukunas main thing is like fire and very red colored things. so i was thinking about it and then this came to mind and honestly it’s so good like even if it’s not what gege intended when writing it i still think it’s cool !!

who knows i might be doing more i have a notes FULL of fun little things ive noticed within jjk that i just type away whenever it comes to me so … :))

[esfordays]

Uhm

[theflyingcosmos]

I wrote the second chapter(excluding the prologue) for my fanfic and it's just over 2.5k words lmfao

[mello-when-hi]

Hey, my latest fic just bumped my AO3 word count to 100K!! That’s pretty fuckin epic I think

[tierras]

in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.

afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.

please donate what you can and share widely.

[anotherpapercut]

I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the idea that that guy might have been framed for killing the CEO as like an unfounded conspiracy theory when NYPD has a proven history of planting/fabricating evidence on people. in 2011 there was a massive investigation of the NYPD and hundreds of cases against people were dismissed after a former police officer testified that they literally have a name for planting evidence on people: flaking. you cannot be out here acting like considering the possibility that cops who do this shit under normal circumstances might possibly also do it when they're under intense global pressure and scrutiny is the same as republicans thinking democrats run a secret pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant

[luetta]

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[amphibifish]

who told me it was a good idea to translate this with my 15 word japanese vocabulary