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gamebunny-advance · 2 months ago

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Oh.

Nintendo out there just casually (kinda) confirming the "descended from humans" and "the wraiths are involved in all of the spaceship crashes" theories.

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Okay, they're not really "confirmations" but more like they're officially addressing the different theories that people have about the true nature of PNF-404 and are telling you to keep on speculating on your own time.

Take these translations with a grain of salt since they're machine translations.

#pikmin #nintendo #pikmin 3 #pikmin 4 #i've always been kinda on and off with the umebozu theory. and i think this is the first time nintendo has directly addressed it #but i've pointed out that shepherd's family are likely descendants from humans since the start #what i don't get (and i'm not sure if i've posted about)#is that if humans are their ancestors #what happened that gave humans the ability to travel through space #and then subsequently lose the ability and also forget the history of Earth?#that's really the biggest mystery to me right now #the crashing and the pikmin's motives we can chalk up to sci-fi nonsense #but what happened for them to just lose millions of years of records?#was there another apocalyptic event that caused them to lose everything again?#are they just bad at record keeping?#is that why so many of the races are obsessed with nostalgia?

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maeamian · 2 months ago

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Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.

#At least in the near term it's fucking pointless and the downsides are very large and very big #Quite frankly it is extraordinarily likely that the first people to arrive at mars will do so dead #Because they will have been sent by fucking idiots willing to take too large risks #But the good news is that the wreck will spread across and contaminate huge amounts of the martian biosphere #To the point that we will quite possibly never be able to discern the history of life on mars #But if they live at least they'll get to slightly reduce the latency on our telerobotic fleet!#And travel home with the samples I guess #Good thing Percy's tagging and bagging rocks that we just canceled the return trips for #At least once we fuck up the rest of the planet those will be sterile #Kinda still excited about Aritimis but also kinda becoming anti-human spaceflight in general #We should consider not doing that for a while and at most focus specifically on living on the moon in a controlled and limited fashion #Ground the whole fucking commercial fleet who gives a shit those capsules are both gonna get someone killed sooner rather than later #And it's not like we're learning a whole lot by having people on hand up there #They spend most of their time trying to keep the machines from falling apart #Which is the main thing people would be doing for three continuous years on the shortest possible mars mission #Like you could send a dozen rovers for the price of one crewed mission both mass and money-wise #And that's probably a lowball estimate even assuming more and more advances in rover technology #Which are happening a lot faster than the advances in life support technology #Right now we do not even have enough functioning space capsules at our low earth orbit space station #Starship HLS is a fucking joke #The whole thing reeks let's just stop sending people into space for a while what were we really getting out of it

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yujeong · 1 month ago

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Time was at a standstill. Vegas was holding his breath without noticing, and continued to hold it when he did - he was afraid of what would happen if he exhaled loudly enough to draw attention to himself. His gaze was shifting between Pete and the man who was standing before them in the doorway, blocking their entrance. Vegas had never seen him before, but even so, he recognized Pete in him enough to know who he was. A dangerous aura surrounded him. There was an edge to his presence that Vegas would only come across people of certain circles. He was a fighter. A muay khao. Pete's father. Shame coursed through Vegas' body, smearing his skin, settling in his lungs, rendering him speechless. I thought he was dead, he wanted to tell Pete if he could. He wanted to scream at him, I thought you killed him. Pete was the one who broke the stillness. As if awakened by something, he took a half-step back and made a motion with his arms, almost raising them to his chest, but not quite. In an instant, Pete reverted into the pet Vegas had been keeping at the safehouse, bound by handcuffs and afraid of his belt hitting flesh and drawing blood. A lump formed in Vegas' throat. "Have you stopped practicing? Your form is off." The uncanny similarities between Pete and his father appearance-wise didn't mean a thing when it came to their voices. Vegas shivered. Was this what Pete would sound like in a few decades? (Were these the condescending words he'd choose to spew? Was Pete going to embody his father? Was Vegas embodying his?) "What are you doing here?" Pete whispered. "They let me out for a few days, so I came here to collect some money. Imagine my surprise when I found out my offspring left the job someone found him worthy enough of doing to... do what exactly? Yaai didn't want to tell me." He crossed his arms, waiting for an answer. Vegas didn't know what he was allowed to say. If he was allowed to say anything at all. "It's none of your business." "I'd say it very much is my business, as well as yaai's business who was dependent on the money you were making being some rich asshole's human shield." A choked sound scratched Vegas' throat. He didn't like getting reminded of Pete being the main family's bodyguard, even though he stopped being one mere months ago. Especially like this. That was the first time Pete's father stopped looking at his son and turned his head to look at Vegas. For a moment, there seemed to be recognition in his eyes. Did he know who Vegas was? Did he care? A snort came out of his mouth. He leaned on the door. "Oh, I see how it is." He laughed, scratched his neck. "I never expected you to whore yourself out for money. Tell me, is it preferable to the path I carved out for you?" Vegas could sense the disgust in his voice. He could also see it on Pete's face. He was too astonished to share it, but not enough to be unable to speak. "Khun, there has been some misunderstanding-" "Don't bother. I can recognize a faggot when I see one." Pete's movements were too fast for Vegas to stop him. A direct jab to the nose; his father fell like a pack of cards, groaning like a wounded animal. Surprisingly, no blood - Pete held back. Vegas didn't know what to think about that. "That was a pathetic attack, even for you." "Get up." "We're not in the ring, son." Pete growled. Vegas could see his hands trembling as he was keeping them in the air, maintaining an offensive stance. "That never stopped you before." "You were too young to understand what I was doing back then. What I was preparing you for." Pete was silent. "The world isn't kind. It'll fuck you over one way or another." He got up, spat on the ground. "You still haven't learned a thing. You're too old to afford being naive." He turned around, and without sparing a look at Pete again, said: "Now get the fuck out of my house." (For @musictooth, whose posts about Pete's father have reignited my passion for this specific concept and for @wretchedamaranth, whose comments on my writing are always lovely and precious ❤️)

#tw slur #vegaspete #pete saengtham #snippet #yu is writing #I started writing this today while waiting for my bus to arrive and wrote most of it on public transport <33 #(hopefully it doesn't show lol)#there's a lot of context missing here but basically: VP visit yaai and a wild father appears #I didn't have space to include her unfortunately but just imagine her in the background with a sad look on her face #which is mostly fixed on Vegas :))#for no reason at all :))#due to a certain someone who I won't name (😤) I mayyy turn this into a fic? Maybe?#because 1. I did have a similar idea a year or so ago but never did anything with it and 2. this concept NEEDS to be explored more come on #because in my mind Vegas and Pete can't go to yaai's house until/unless Pete's father leaves #all their stuff is in her house #and they only have Vegas' car with which they traveled there #and Bangkok is too far away to go back now in the middle of the night (yes this happens at night time)#so basically what I'm saying is: VP will spend their night in the car :)#I'm sure the combination of an agitated Pete and a tired Vegas who's also equating Pete with his father due to their external similarities #will be a delightful experience for them both #I'm vibrating out of my skin just thinking about it #can I promise I'll write it and put it out there? Hell no #can I still get excited by the prospect of it happening? Hell yes #sorry I'm rambling a little too much over here #I just haven't felt this good writing in MONTHS #thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it <3333

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nenoname · 7 days ago

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me: oh i totally get it if some folks dont jive with same coin theory, plus it's strange to conceptualise at first--

me when i see people call it lame:

#is it any more lame than bill just becoming a bird after a decade of waiting #they dont understand the poetry of bill creating his own end in the form of someone he despises yet gets everything he wanted!!!#sounds like 'i didnt know about the axolotl poem and was oblivious to the bill reincarnation for the past 8 years' talk!#y'all need to appreciate a good ol bootstrap paradox!!! love me some time shenanigans!#also the funniest thing i've seen when folks were denying same coin theory was #'oh that's a paradox so that clearly can't happen!!!!'#as if both time travel eps arent entirely bootstrap paradoxes that literally points the paradox out #and the fact that soos and stan met is one too!!!#...which then makes any canon divergent aus where dipper and mabel dont make it to that ep have the timeline fall apart lol #but everyone forgets about that so whatever!!!#....yes i have beef with the inconsistencies of time travel in the eps but whatever #..........if the kids replace themselves when time travelling then what about the baby versions in 2002--#could you imagine time travellers pig with a billion time duplicates of the kids tho lmao #my point is a paradox brought this family together canonically #defying time and space and lifetimes and trauma theyre all silly goobers together!!!#anyway here's me grumbling cos it was a plot thread left out for years that we were meant to discuss/think about #too bad we didnt expect the 'bill is too busy in theraprison to get reincarnated rn' twist

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ruvviks · 8 months ago

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"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

taglist (opt in/out): @shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart, @vvanessaives, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman, @celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister, @killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

#obscura #edit:rome #nuclearocs #nuclearedits #ok so. ok hi. red and i made a new universe hi. sorry. morris quincy victor and eleanor belong to them the rest belong to meee :3 #the pictures i used are basically the patron saints of their occupation / line of work! so that's not what they look like #anyway it's a mix of paranormal stuff + lovecraftian horror + sort of zombies :^)#they're like. the domains of lucifer (demons) behemoth (zombies) and leviathan (the eldritch horrors that happen in space and oceans)#who are like. the three evils that torment the mortal realm #it's all in a historical setting kind of parallel to our world? so a bunch of historic events are the same but it's like #a little bit more advanced with technology but at the same time it's not. it's Just A Little Different y'know #rome's sister went to space for a mission and just straight up went missing which prompts him to become an astronomer #and he's the first one to start speculating the existence of leviathan as eldritch god #morris is a technician at the academy who has an angel stuck in his computer #eve is a nun and herbalist who witnesses the influence of behemoth firsthand through some sick travelers #that she and the other nuns of her convent take care of #anatoly and quincy are both from different space missions who end up as the only survivors who are not basically a plant #the other two survivors have secretly been replaced with some sort of parasites. annihilation style if you've seen that movie #eleanor is a demonologist and works together with her brother victor who's her cameraman #clarence is a blind psychic who lost her sight because of an angel trying to warn her and in return got her psychic abilities #and lazarus is one of the two most famous demonologists in the world but his wife (the other one) passed away #so now he's alone and since he's not from an upper class family like his wife was he's not all that loved as she was #there's a lot going on but it's SO fucking fun to work on so far. feel free to send any asks i would love to explain more :^)#if you've made it this far also hi i love you. kiss for you

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bunnihearted · 20 days ago

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once again crying bc im thinking abt all the homeless cats and dogs and bunnies.... :(

#and all other animals #and also all the animals that are illegally exported and stuffed into boxes to travel thru customs etc and they are tortured in there #nobody cares abt animals as living beings #like the numbers of these are millions and millions it isnt smth that just happens a handful of times #millions of animald are abandoned and homeless and millions of animals are illegally transported #humans dont deserve animals. in fact we just deserve them rising up and eating all of us #i mean thats what we do now so thats #just karma. there is no *real* reason why humans are the center of the universe #the only reason is bc humans is the no1 narcissistic species #cats are 2nd... the world would still be better if cats overthrew humans and ruled the world #ok lmao none of this matters it just hurts so much to think abt #animals are in our hands and we should care for the #them*. not this... it disgusts me #and ppl are so fucking... stupid #like there's a video of a bunny jumping from a cardboard box in an airport and runs around #and everyone loved that video and thinks its sooooo cute and funny ahhahah #and im like.. y'all rlly have no b #rainscells or basic understanding or any compassion???#ppl smuggle animals like that and that poor bunny was trapped in there w no food or water or space or air supply #and what do u think they'll do when they catch the bunny??#that isnt funny nor cute that is awful #most ppl who claim to 'love animals' only mean that #in a superficial sense. they love looking at animals bc theyre cute #but they dont view animals as living beings with rights or etc etc #humans are awful... ok anyway #thinking abt homeless cats and when a human is kind to them they get this look in their eyes #idk how anyone can be so empty and braindead and soulles to think animals dont feel #humans are animals. we are part of the universe and world. earth doesnt belong to us. we arent the centre of the universe. ew

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thresholdbb · 6 months ago

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If Annorax has been eradicating civilizations for hundreds of years, and Janeway resets the entire timeline by crashing Voyager into the Krenim ship, would that change the events leading up to Year of Hell?

How many species were eliminated by Annorax that Voyager would run into in the new and improved timeline?

#caught in the time loop #I love time travel episodes but I also hate them because I get stuck thinking about the implications #i also get stuck on when time travel episodes happen #they need to get to the point to trigger the time travel but theoretically they could time travel at any point #if they intercede before they're 'supposed to' that changes the timeline #let's not even bring space into this cause you combine time travel with space and nothing is in the right place anymore #I don't know shit about physics but what I do know inevitably gets me caught in this bullshit #so maybe we don't know what happens before year of hell #this all eventually ties back into my overarching threshold theory lol

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fruityumbrella · 3 months ago

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truly nothing does more for the creative spirit than hanging out in bed for five hours. everyone say thank you bedrotting<3

#need to give my poor body a rest from all the driving hiking and i got 600 time travel words + a whole concept ill never write drafted #600 words isnt a lot i know but its also just a whole new angle/layer to the fic n their dynamic which is very interesting n exciting to me #namely what happens when you try to broach the time and space between you and your lover only to find you dont really know them anymore

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hercarisntyours · 1 month ago

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kingdom come by red velvet is so oplita in my eyes, I know I've already said this but sTILL THE SONG IS ABOUT LOVING SOMEONE TILL KINGDOM COME AND OPLITA DIDDD, THEY LOVED EACH TILL THE KINGDOM (CYBERTRON) CAME theylovedeachothertilltheendomgsappyrn

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AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEM like this is mature oplita I will never leave this alone you'd have to buy my silence

#Oplita notes #AHHHHHHHHHHHH #AND NOT TO MENTION THIS SONG IS SO GOOD??? I ascend into another mortal plane when I listen to this I cannot be contained to this earth #i travel across galaxies going through hyper space i experience an out of body experience akin to dying and becoming part of the ever expan #expanding universe via quantum physics when I hear kingdom come which also happens when I see anything oplita #(not to be dramatic ofc)#transformers #elita one #elita 1 #optimus prime #orion pax #oplita #Optimus prime #optimus x elita #optimus prime x elita one #red velvet #I LOVE RED VELVET RAHHH 🦅🦅💥💥🦅💥🗣🗣🗣🗣 WHAT THE FUCK IS A BAD SONG 💥💥💥🦅💥🦅🗣🦅 BBAL GAN MAT 🦅💥🦅🦅💥💥 JUST BAMBOLEO 💥🗣💥 RBB🗣#I'VE GOT YOU YOU'VE GOT ME LOVE YOU TILL KINGDOM COMEEEEEEEEEE 🗣🗣🗣🦅🗣🦅🗣🗣

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nomairuins · 2 months ago

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also its so dumb that one of the arguments ppl have against a sims 5 is that theyve already invested too much money into 4. like yes its fucking scummy that ea charges so much for dlc and its Ludicrous the amt sims 4 costs if you have all the dlc and its going to keep getting more and more expensive but . to be honest . why are you paying for sims packs. im sry

#ik not everyone can pirate i get it and its your money do what you want #but itis your choice to invest so much into like. a sinking ship DJRNFJFNG. idk....#i want 2 be optimistic and believe that somehow they WILL be able to fix every single issue with ts4 #but i honestly believe thats require them to take an extended break from releasing new packs and shit #and i genuinely honestly dont think theyll do that. lol.#but like. i think itd be a good idea like. Cut down on new releases and focus on fixing the base game and then pack refreshes #bc itd be rly cool to have like. pack refreshes to make them more fleshed out #but also like. sigh. it rly does come down to the packs bc i judt genuinely find it kind of disgusting how little is in each pack #and how many of the packs could be consolidated #genuinely earnestly feel like growing together and parenthood shouldve been one pack. like. and honestly throw hsy in there...#hsy could do with a refresh Badd ik its fairly new but oh my god the school is so fucking buggy #and in general like. IDK. id rly love the packs to be refreshed and id love love love More fucking lots in the worlds oh my god. multiple #worlds have literally 4 lots. Thats fucking actually insane it makes me crazy #i get like. ooh bc you can travel between worlds the worlds can be smaller but i hate it 😭😭😭#i think its just bc i grew up playing 3 perhaps but like. i rly loved like. idk when i choose to play in a sims world i want to play in tha #world. i dont want to have to like. i live in moonwood mills (5 lots .) and thej i have to go to like. san myshunonif i want to go to a bar #or whatever. is there a bar in san myshuno idr #IDKIDK. i feel like Innnn my opinion there should be like. at least 1 of the basegame lot types for every world maybe with some exceptions #and there should be enough empty slots ppl can fill it out more if they want...#but also like. idk. i suppose it wouldnt affect me much bc i usually stay on my home lot as much as possible #bc of the loading screens #it wouldnt be so bad if like. idk. i understand why they didnt wanna do open world like ts3 #well i dont its fucking actually stupid. but i get that ts4 wasnt supposed to be what it is and it wasnt built to be a longrunning game.#hence why ts5 should happen instead as a Strong Foundation BUT WHATEVER but like. yk. and ik im not the only person in the world and other #ppl want different but i feel like maybe you could have options .. idk. im not a programmer #but itd be cool to have some sort of way to toggle between like. open world semi open world and closed world #where itd be like. ts3 style where the exteriors of everything r there but the interiors r loaded in when u visit (if that is how ts3 works #i may be a bit off) nd closed would be ts4 style Loading screen to go . next door #am i misremembering or are there even loading screens between like. the new apartments with forrent.... there were for the city living ones #skull Fuckk i ran out of space

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girlscience · 1 year ago

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I finished Nona the Ninth and.... I was going to make a whole post outlining everything that confused and frustrated me about the book (because there is A Lot) but actually I think I can sum it up much faster. This is a story mostly focused on characters and people, and I often do not care about characters and people. I far prefer worldbuilding to nearly everything else and I think the worldbuilding is there, but it is not really being explained. There is a war happening, and I understand absolutely none of it. I don't understand the sides/factions, I don't understand the politicking happening, I don't understand the goals, I don't know who is leading what or why or where they are etc etc etc. And I don't know if that's a fault on my part as a reader or that it's simply not being explained well. In relation to that, everything is unreliable narrators. And I think I am coming to the conclusion I don't like that. It means I don't know what's actually happening ever and it is beginning to really frustrate me.

#tlt #I like the characters! I do! But I am really only attached to Gideon #I liked all the characters in Nona... but they arent very important to me #I like the making of Paul and thought that was very interesting and well written and moving #but that was pretty much the only character based piece of this story I really loved #Idk. I am going to finish the series.... but I don't understand anything #I think I will have to reread everything but even then idk if I'll pick up all the pieces #I also have opinions about the fact all of it feels like it's happening on post apocalyptic earth....#but it's supposed to be on alien planets and 10000 years in the future. I feel like it should feel far more alien #I did like getting John's backstory and explaination. but I also think he may be an unreliable narrator so I don't trust what he said #and I don't get why everything that happened in his story happened... and like I guess that piece doesn't matter so much cause 10000 years #but it bothers me #AND AGAIN MY GIRL GIDEON WAS BARELY IN THE BOOK #idk. I just want to know who is fighting. why are the fighting. what do they all want. WHERE are they fighting. how are they fighting.#what all science is there. what space travel is there. how does the space travel work.#better explainations of the magic. and the river. what was the tower in the river. (i think some of that will be addressed later)#(or at least i fucking hope so)#idk. I feel like some of this is explained and I just missed it... but I think some of it is absolutely glossed over #and I don't hate open ended worldbuilding entirely but I want better scaffolding #I DONT KNOW. I feel like I'm being mean and so I feel bad #like it's a good book and so many people like them #and I liked them at the beginning!!! but now I'm just confused and frustrated #and I don't know if it's my fault and I'm just too stupid to pick on things and context and hints and stuff #or if it actually was all that poorly explained

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inkedhorror · 4 months ago

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oh when did that happen...

#THANKS GANG! i dont know when or why this happened but im glad u like my silly once in a blue moon art posts #i need to completely redo my personal tags Ugh my blog is a mess #um I want to post more art eventually but A) i havent made a solid drawing in a month and B) ivr finished writing 2 fanfics in my life Total #and they were oneshots.... For Sam & Max. looks away #executive dysfunction sux Boo i wld lovr to be able to finish writing smth else literally Ever. i have so many cool fic and au ideas #and i get so embarrassed or straight up forget abt stuff i do finish. like... shivers. Freakyverse #aka an abandoned utmv project between a friend group that kinda fell apart but Hey what can u do #namedropping varyswap simply bc i want to have it somewhere public that it does exist and im not crazy when i inevitably lose the google doc #sighs wistfully at the dozens to hundreds of google doc wips i have #i have so much i want to share but i dont even have enough written down for a full chapter of smth...#i would be fine posting abandoned wips if there was Enough for me to be satisfied with #its all messy drafts and half finished plot lines and i barely ever end up completing an entire scene #and. i dont like posting unorganized ideas in public spaces. i guess. idk #screams into a pillow #edit i have 3 finished fanfics total. wrote that 3rd one when i was 9-10. it was a utmv s/i fic abt her and her friends dying. head in hands #shoves my su fic ideas doc behind my back #so like... kicks the floor. anyone else insanely attached to concepts where characters are split into Pieces of themselves etc because #yeah im that person and i also like time travel and undead characters so you can imagine what my su ideas doc looks like rn #sorry i forgot this was a post abt how i have 150 followers #I WLD DO SOMETHING SPECIAL BUT ALAS #yall arent getting shit. Sorry. havent even gotten to the simple doodle requests in my inbox yet #love u xo #rabbit squeaks

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labyrynth · 1 year ago

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um…question for any of y’all that listen to the magnus archives…if a person is hypothetically very prone to heebie-jeebies…is it like…manageable? or is it going to make this purely hypothetical person afraid to walk down the hallway at night;;;

bc it sounds interesting but. i am. nervous.