#also anachronisms

[angelsaxis]

i dont think we can solely blame the authors for poorly written books. yes most of the work is on them but when you read something that just feels awkward as hell or like the author was roaming free doing what they wanted, that's because the editor(s) were asleep at the wheel. when an author wants to go on a tangent and use overwritten metaphors for every single thing they want to describe, the editor's supposed to say "hey dial that back". when an author indents way too many time to for "dramatic effect" an editor is supposed to say dont do that lol. like where are the line editors lmao?

[gammija]

tiefling jon's first day at the Archives

[pixlatedvampire]

hi the literal whole entire reason i made these was bc i watched this 10 sec clip on youtube pls watch

[dragonballofficial]

Gohan's polycule is really cool.

[anachronic-cobra]

How many death threats do you think I'd get if I wrote a queer book where the Devil falls in love with Adam from the Garden of Eden when something causes him to Fall from Heaven? And they both have to unlearn their religious trauma? And I retcon the existence of god because I think that's a more interesting take on the concepts of heaven and hell?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Someone asked why my cat guy was in a bikini, and the answer is: Men and them can wear bikini’s too!

To demonstrate, here’s Lan Wangji and his brunch friend Elle Woods at their weekly summer hangout.

[bloodyfries]

I love fics that send Shen Yuan back to his world but I really want to see more angst on the initial "waking up". Like, imagine if you just spent 15 or so years of your life in another world. You were actually happy, you had friends (unlike in your past life), got over your emotional intimacy problems and found love; just for everything to stop, be gone. I know this happens to some people who were in comas, but i think it would be a little different because it was actually real.

I was listening to Girl Anachronism (great song btw) and just had the very vivid scene of Shen Yuan going through a bit of a mental break after "coming back to life". He's been living in a different time and different world. How would he even readjust to the modern world?

Anyway, here's a sketch of how I think he would be feeling :3

You can tell

From the glass on the floor

And the strings that're breaking

And I keep on breaking more

And it looks like I am shaking

But it's just the temperature

And then again

If it were any colder I could disengage

If I were any older I could act my age

But I don't think that you'd believe me

It's not the way

I'm meant to be

It's just the way

The operation made me

[under-a-lilac-moon]

18th century jon so he can wear his hair in a queue and prance around being a silly pretty little guy and when he travels to the usa he sees alexander hamilton and is like 'el-oh-el these 'revolutionaries' who think they're so great while they're actually just colonisers i'm gonna go back to england and fight for abolition while staying silly through the horrors even though the magnus institute doesn't exist yet'

i think that would be pretty delightful if just for long-haired jon

[secretmellowblog]

I think I finally figured out my designs for Javert and Valjean! It turns out the trick was getting good reference photos :)

[reanimatedmagpie]

immortals whose body did not Quite adapt to the immortality evenly or whose immortality did not take into account everything there is to take.

Immortals with fake teeth, with completely shot sense of taste because tongue cells are fragile and lose sensitivity within a few decades. Immortals whose eyesight's kinda shit. Immortals with bad joints and strain injuries. Immortals with replacement hips. Immortals with so so many surgery scars. Immortals that can't hear as well anymore or at all. Immortals whose immune system hasn't quite held on the entire time, with bone problems, broken noses, worn out or even replaced livers and other organs. immortals subject to time anyway despite being denied the grace of really aging.

Bodies that were not built to go on forever being forced to anyway.

[bingqiv]

doctor who really missed a trick by not having the meddling monk being in the bridgerton cosplay episode

[daitoshi]

Fun lil story about me & a state trooper talking past each other.

State trooper pulled me over, had me roll down the window, asked me why I thought I'd pulled him over (a headlight was burnt out, it was night). He asked for insurance, license, the usual stuff.

But then he asked me what I'd been up to that evening.

Me: I'm on my way home from a club meetup.

Him: Oh? Had fun, then?

Me: Yeah! We had a great time. It's a whole weekly thing.

Him: So how many drinks did you have?

Me: Like, alcohol? No, none, there was no alcohol tonight.

Him: You went to the club, but didn't drink anything?

Me: Yes? People leave their brewing stuff at home.

*we both stare at each other through the open window, mutually confused

Him: What club is this?

Me: SCA. It's- 'Society for Creative Anachronism' - it's like, a group that gets together to learn pre-16th century crafting techniques, sword fighting, court reenactments and stuff. We worked on weaving lace and embroidery, tonight.

Him: *shines flashlight in back seat, where my lace project is, looks at my wife in the passenger seat who lifts up an embroidery hoop depicting a nearly-finished goldfish, then steps back from the car for a moment, clearly trying not to laugh

Him: That.... actually sounds pretty cool. So you know how to use a sword?

Me: I'm more into archery, to be honest.

Him: Do you have any weapons in the car, tonight?

Me: No sir, just the lace.

Him: Alright, so your license plate bulb is out, and one of your headlights is out. I'm going to give you a warning, make sure to see (judge) before (date) to show you got those fixed.

Me: Thanks very much, will do. We're always happy to have new members, if you want to learn sword fighting.

Him: I'll think about it.

And so we departed, and I learned an important lesson about remembering to clarify the difference between "being in a club" and "going to the club."

[pixlatedvampire]

I havent finished anything in a bit so please enjoy my favorite Grima doodles lmao 💗🥰

[tropicalcontinental]

Wait a minute when the hell does the CL16 Continuity take place? Like, is it in 2023? At least, it's present? Going by what's in the description of the Herobrine Exposure video, Zander's channel has been inactive for 6 years (the Herobrine video being his last one), and he's playing on 1.12 (as Kevin mentions in his debunking.)

Assuming that 1.12 is the latest version of Minecraft currently out at the time, and that 1.12 was released on June 7, 2017, it would mark present day as 2023.

But then there's like, the Gameband video, where the S.O.S file is dated as October 6, 2016.

Is this also a part of the parody or something? Am I overthinking this? Is it anachronistic on purpose? I was just trying to figure out when Kevin potentially started his paranormal mercenary business.

Speaking of which! The latest minecraft version in Kevin's video appears to be 1.12.2 (according to the versions his clients play), which only came out months after the release of 1.12. So either his clients just like old Minecraft (which he did mention are more prone to hauntings, but that's specifically for Metaphors for Nostalgia, not just any regular haunt), or the latest version is just 1.12.2 (which was an update of 1.12 that came out on September 18, 2017.)

Assuming the latter is the case, and like, assuming Kevin is BigKVids, did he immediately jump into the supernatural world after seeing a hint of Souler in Zander's video? If so that's kinda funny, and also means he's somehow super experienced after a couple months. Hashtag bluffing or overconfidence or extreme competence or whatever.

(Hey is BigKVids' channel being deleted a good sign? Either Kevin deleted his old, kid channel, or that he continued to use the same channel to publish his portfolio. Eh, It's probably not a big deal.)

Vitri also seems to play on 1.12.2 considering the mods she has downloaded work for, well, 1.12.2.

And Collin's world is Collin's world man (I'm assuming it's 1.12.2)

Basically, I think CL16 Continuity is currently taking place in 2017, at least most of its videos do. But it seems like it could go up to 2023 if it wants.

Also who's reuploading Zander's, BigKVids', and AwesomeG's videos? Is it the entity called The Reuploader or something (I know that hungry may be the one reuploading AwesomeG's videos for some reason, but there's no confirmation for the other two!)

[carnivalls]

[amanda palmer voice] behold the world's worst accident

[trashcreatyre]

You really did have to be there