#and then going hey wait a minute

[shadowbends]

You're actually such an inspiration the way you overcame and escaped cult life. Sometimes I see the compassionate things you reblog and I just marvel that you clawed your way out of that life and decided to Be Good. What an utterly amazing thing to do.

That's so kind of you to say, thank you. ;;

...And huh. This ask made me realize it's officially been 10 years since I woke up, down to the month.

Back then, when I made my decision that I wanted nothing to do with that lifestyle ever again, I think I saw myself as being more accomplished than I am today. Though a part of me is disappointed I don't feel any closer to those goals, I think younger me was also underestimating what a process it would be. There were so many things to unlearn; I've had to work hard on my critical thinking skills. Getting out physically was a big affair, too—but I made it!

And I'm so much happier where I am now. While I might not have more to show for it, I think I can fairly say I've grown a lot as a person. I feel more at peace with myself than I ever did when I was younger. I judge both myself and others much less, and I have more hope for the future.

...That last one might feel strange given the state of the world and all the stressors attached to it. I'm not trying to undersell any of those, because I'm just as scared as everyone! It's kinda hard to explain. When you grow up thinking the world can—and will—end in your lifetime, I can't emphasize enough how much that shapes you.

My parents told me they hoped Armageddon would come before I grew up (it was a surprise when it didn't). I wasn't allowed to make friends; I had to refer to the kids I played with at school as my worldly associates. It didn't matter if they treated me with more kindness than anyone in the congregation; they'd die in the final judgement—and I would too if I spent all my time playing with them instead of devoting myself to more spiritual pursuits. The end is imminent, don't you know. You can see it in politics and the rise of natural disasters, and violence, and disease, and the list goes on and on.

But people aren't inherently wicked. They're just people. Some are capable of awful things, it's true, but many more are also kind, and funny, and loving, and good. They fight against violence and injustice, and for the sake of people they may never even meet. For animals, and the planet, and curiosity, and discovery.

No matter how shitty things get, there are people out there trying to improve and enrich not just their lives, but the lives of others, and I think that that's really beautiful. The world isn't full of wickedness, it's full of wonders. Even if it gets caked in mud, there will always be people out there ready to hose it off and rebuild.

It feels good to hope, even in dark times.

It feels good to care—especially in dark times.

So I will. If I can show nothing else for how far I've come, I'm happy to say I can do that, even in my small way.

[starry-bi-sky]

i think i'm hilarious -- aka i made blood blossom danny au memes

all of these come from my DpxDC prompt "i am pushing the batdad agenda--" and it's corresponding additions in the reblogs ksdjlf.

i am. rotating them in my head. forever and always. personally i think there should be more batdad aus in dpxdc, their dynamic could be neat. :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Portrait pains

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[midnightcatharsis]

Imagine this scenario: Jayce thinks he needs to kill Viktor to prevent a tragedy caused by Viktor changed into an emotionless villain robot who looks down on humanity. He goes to where the members of the cult/commune live with a hammer just like in the show and just like in the show Viktor invites him in without even caring whether he has a hextech weapon. Jayce is fully set on killing him, his hand closes on the hammer but then he sees Viktor and hesitates. Viktor was even more beautiful than before, his face still fully human not hidden behind the mask, his eyes fully human. Expressive emotions visible on his face and in his eyes.  He's so, so much different from the machine Viktor from the future that Jayce has seen.  That one was cold, this one before him is happy, excited that he can see Jayce and share his knowledge and dream with him. But Jayce knows he has to kill him, his hand on a hammer again… yet he still can't force himself to do it. Viktor greets him, and Jayce can't respond. How can someone like Vik before his eyes change into the Machine Herald? How does someone like that who still cares about humanity (maybe Jayce has seen Vander) change like that?? And then he slowly realizes… what if he never changed? What if it was a self-fulfilling prophecy? His eyes widen and he remembers all that he knows about the hexcore and arcane he recalls that the hexcore is learning and adapting, evolving really, and that it can revive itself… Of course, since it's constantly adapting it must mean that after reviving it would want to eliminate what caused its destruction… emotion and humanity. After all they were the reason why Viktor allowed himself to be vulnerable near Jayce. It is trust that makes him so easy to approach and attack... and kill. He starts to think that perhaps he did murder Viktor in the previous timeline and this event was what caused the hexcore to change in the way that allowed for the tragedy to happen and for Viktor to become a villain… Jayce decides not to kill him ever again, instead, he tells him what he saw and talks to him which in the end results in them teaming up to find a different way to destroy the hexcore while not killing all the people already healed by it… Or something like that.

I really need a fix-it

[froglover7789]

luke skywalker with lightning scars....

god imagine how terrible he felt at the end of rotj. bro had an extremely taxing fight with vader, fought a mental battle against himself and the emperor, watched his friends get demolished, got electrocuted for MINUTES and then carried vaders body back to the shuttle. how on EARTH did he stand there gay as hell leaning against that tree on endor. he mustve felt dead. SEND HIS ASS TO MEDICAL PLEASEEE

lightning scars would be cool tho. i think they probs wouldnt fade bc of how long he was exposed. the nerve damage would be wild tho like,,, it def messed up his prosthetic too,,,

[the-northern-continent]

You know, the “no death” combat setting might genuinely be the most lore-accurate option, considering that Rook is absolutely

⬇️ Game Informer spoilers ⬇️

an abomination. Every time they die, Solas goes “nope, get back up” and they’re up.

Listen I am still side-eyeing that entire explanation so hard lmao. You’re telling me Mr. Roamer In The Beyond is now trapped in the *checks notes* Beyond? Mr. Didn’t Want A Body? Ok, sure. And I bet the blood ritual that accidentally connected you to Rook’s mind is totally unrelated to all those times someone got whoopsie daisy possessed after doing blood magic.

Also the Lighthouse is bathed in purple light. Almost as if it may, perhaps, be the domain of a powerful pride spirit.

But I’m sure it’s fine, because it’s not like Rook just got done attempting something that’s right at the intersection of wisdom and arrogance. The exact kind of thing that an ancient pride spirit might be tempting them to do.

The funniest part is imagining how pissy he’d get about anyone calling it “possession”. He would 100% be all Imshael level CHOICE SPIRIT about it, like “we’re just talking, you have the freedom to act as you wish”.

[thursdaysyme]

When you need to match your husband so you buy an array of headbands that match all his shirts

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

why do they do this and can they stop it please

[hailthegodsong]

me watching my $110 prance around on stage like a kid on christmas morning

[svtskneecaps]

so there's that qsmp admin server right. do you think that like. when they're just playing around having a normal one. and then it does normal minecraft things like rain. do you think it triggers their fight or flight instincts lmfao

[the-grey-hunt]

Hidden Whispers: Green Text In Ghost Trick

(grabs you and shakes you by the shoulders) WHAT DOES IT MEAN. COME WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY

So last night I was playing ghost trick, as you do, but more importantly, I was playing it myself for the first time and paying a lot more attention to the words as a result. And something kind of...odd...happened in the submarine.

That green text isn’t Lynne, or it would be a continuation of her black text with her sprite visible, instead of her text breaking off with an em dash. It explicitly isn’t Sissel, who wonders if he’s hearing things. So…who, or what, is it?

Let’s examine our evidence. First: Where does green text already appear in Ghost Trick?

(screenshots taken from my switch and from this playthrough)

In chapter 6, Detective Rindge speaks in green over the radio:

And later, in Rindge's four minutes before death, we see that from his perspective, he's in black text and the Chief (over the radio) responds to him in green:

(above screenshot taken from Secret Sleepover Society's playthrough because I didn't get to see this text in Lacry's)

In chapter 7, the conversation Rindge hears through the "ladybug" is also green...

...including in the "new present", when he hears the chef instead:

This tells us that one use of green text is to indicate that we are hearing someone who is out of Sissel's normal range. (We know that Sissel can't be too far away from humans if he wants to hear what they're saying, such as in the restaurant when Beauty and Dandy leave the trunk behind.)

But these aren't the only instances of green text. There are two others:

In chapter 14, the text of the meteorite monument is written in green. This means that green text can also indicate the written word, information that is being conveyed to Sissel (maybe read aloud to him?) from a format he isn't able to access.

This is also supported by the second example I mentioned:

In the Final Chapter, when Yomiel repeats Fiansissel's note, the text of the note is in green. It's the written word, something Sissel can't "hear", being transmitted to Sissel in a way he can understand.

And there's one more example of green text...

When Yomiel has a flashback to what Lynne said to him in the destroyed Yonoa, her text is in green. Again, it is something Sissel is hearing when he wouldn't normally be able to hear it (after all, Lynne isn't there! This is in the park, after he leaves Lynne and Kamila behind).

So if green text indicates Sissel hearing/understanding something he shouldn't be able to...

...what IS he hearing in that clip? He knows he's hearing something; he's surprised by it; it's something he thinks he could dismiss as his imagination.

The answer is both obvious and so convoluted it's taken me this long to even realize there was a question:

Yes. That's right. It's Ray. (also yes, that's right. I'm putting the 'keep reading' cut HERE.)

Q: BUT HOW?!?!?!?!?!

A: Not only COULD it be Ray, it HAS to be Ray. The green text in that clip is a reference to an "unstoppable (M/m)issile"!

Not only that, in order for Ray to catch Sissel like this in the ghost world at the very end, he had to have been in the park to speak with Sissel in the ghost world.

As we've seen, ghosts require proximity to be able to speak to each other. Sissel can't talk to a ghost (powered or unpowered) unless they're close enough for him to reach; he doesn't speak to Missile once Missile-leaf has blown away until he physically encounters the leaf again.

Ray had to be in the park when the "new future" was made in order to talk to Sissel here. In order to reach the park, he had to be brought back with the others when they rewound to Yomiel's death. In order to do that, he had to have been on the submarine to journey with them to the control room.

(It was a crowded torpedo, is what I'm saying).

Q: It could be regular Missile speaking. After all, his ghost was there.

A: If present Missile and not Ray was speaking, it would be black text—his ghost is close enough for Sissel to hear, as he's still right there with Kamila!

Q: But Ray was in the junkyard—

A: Was he? Ray stops responding to Sissel as the night goes on, if you keep visiting the junkyard. If you try to talk to him before going to Lynne in Temsik Park (around midnight/1 AM), there's only "...".

Ray had made it to the submarine before in his timeline; he knew how to get there. Was he losing strength and "unable" to talk, or was he not there at all to speak to Sissel? Did he leave hours beforehand to make sure he would get to the Yonoa in time?

Q: Wouldn't Sissel have noticed Ray was gone?

A: Is there *any* point in the game where Ray's "spiritual flame" self is visible in the lamp? There would be no visible difference.

Q: Wouldn't they have noticed him on the torpedo?

A: They didn't notice Yomiel.

Q: How does that even work? With not being able to see the flame, or not realizing another ghost is there, and wouldn't Sissel have seen Yomiel's flame in his body in the very first scene—

A: Listen this post is already long enough.

And there's one more piece of evidence I've been holding out on:

Ray-timeline Sissel, quoted by Ray to Sissel, speaks in green text. A piece of speech Sissel wouldn't normally have been able to hear, but is hearing through another.

And...why green, anyway? Isn't it interesting that there are multiple colors of text in this game? Besides the "normal" black text, there's green, there's red, and there's...blue.

Red text, Sissel's color, is used to denote clues, parts of dialogue or narration that are important to Sissel's quest and help guide him along the path towards the truth behind "the mystery of me".

Blue text, the color of Yomiel's ghost world, indicates 'private thoughts' that, nonetheless, affect the people Sissel interacts with. Something "secret" reaching out and ending up in other characters' heads anyway (because after all, it's not speech but 'thought' beamed directly into a mind...)

And then green text. Text that reveals important knowledge that, despite all the obstacles in the way, is conveyed to Sissel anyway. The color, essentially, of lore-drops, tutorials, and the "hidden truth" revealed.

Of COURSE the green text in that one mysterious moment is Missile. *It's his color.*

[gunstellations]

"お前は失ってばかりじゃねえ"

"you haven't only received loss"

[fruitbythefoot7]

will loves mike the way mike wants to be loved 

[lunacchi]

Day 5 - doing a recreational activity

Luna goes to choir practice every week, both during her time at the academy and during the war.

While she's originally a bit nervous about singing in front of others, she gets a lot more comfortable with having an audience since she discovered she can use her singing to focus/direct her healing magic.

[martyrbat]

letters to the batman!

[ID: a full body panel of Batman. He's leaning against something that's concealed by his body and has one of his knees lifted and bent while the other leg is slightly extended out. His arm is extended in front of him and he's holding the edge of his cape to cause it to be draped out like a curtain behind Batman. In his other hand, he's holding a letter and he's looking down slightly to read it. Behind him is a yellow circle that's reminiscent of a sun as orange beams of light extend from it. END ID]

[uorufein]

At the end of this story, there is only a cold spot

Stained with blood and empty air