#and then sometimes it buffers

[mcheung]

this is why i hate doing movie gifsets

[windfalling]

THE FALL [1/5]

"You can unlearn what was taught to you," The Stranger said, his voice almost gentle. "We will do it together." Osha discovers her strength in the Force with The Stranger to guide her.

[deoidesign]

My comic is so pretty...

The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!

[oni-1-oni-none]

romeo ref sheet from months ago 💭

[commanderfreddy]

people are discoursing about the laios and shiro fight bc that was always going to happen but i do hope that wave crests quickly and we can all come to see it as what it is: literally one of the best written fights between two people who are both entirely justified in their actions and acting without any malice or cruelty of all time

[definitelynotshouting]

So the hunger AU has been living low rent in the back of my head for months now but it also very heavy for me personally so I've been distantly and slowly learning more about it. Anyways, on the subject of watcher Grian coming to terms of what happened to player Grian, one of my favorite nerd songs really hits, especially the chorus. Overthrone by TheLongestSoloEver. It slaps and I have no idea if you take music suggestions but I wanted to share because I adore this au and honestly it's so perfect. Anywaykthanksbye

HEY CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE BRIDGE HERE ACTUALLY BC HOLY SHIT IM GOING BANANAS AT HOW ON THE NOSE THIS IS

OH MY GOOOOOODS THIS SONG RULES I LOVE SONGS WITH BEATS LIKE THIS IM RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING!!!!!! :DDDDD

[batsplat]

number of sunday race wins per title winner this century (wins/number of races)

2001: 11/16

2002: 11/16

2003: 9/16

2004: 9/16

2005: 11/17

2006: 2/17

2007: 10/18

2008: 9/18

2009: 6/17

2010: 9/18

2011: 10/17

2012: 6/18

2013: 6/18

2014: 13/18

2015: 7/18

2016: 5/18

2017: 6/18

2018: 9/18

2019: 12/19

2020: 1/14

2021: 5/18

2022: 7/20

2023: 7/20

current wins of title contenders this season (out of 9 races, another 10-11 to go): bagnaia - 6; martin - 2

[boughclan-clangen]

eheheheheheheehe.....

backlog............................

[bluebellhairpin]

Ik I watch these shows on an illegal site, but it'd be so nice if I didn't have to skip every ten seconds of every minutes just so the video doesn't buffer after I watch more than 1 season.

[milimeters-morales]

yknow someone once left a tag for me that said something like “you drew pavitr shaped like a wardrobe as his creators intended” and i think of it like everyday

[motley-cunt]

just eskimo kiss your bassist I guess

[tsartistry]

surprisingly, the most time-consuming part of this one commission thus far is recreating this one specific image that's gonna get shrunk down and stuck to the characters' shirts, losing pretty much all the detail I'm adding. But it's still pretty fun to play around with!

[its-rat-time-babey]

Rain World Artificer Headcanons:

(This is talking about a post-Scavenger King Artificer by the way)

The Artificer cannot ascend, that part is obvious, but the true extent of that inability to ascend is insane. Her killing of the scavenger king permanently bound her to the world in every single sense of the word.

When a creature dies of old age or generally natural causes in Rain World, they reincarnate as another member of their species (or whatever is genetically closest if their old species is extinct) in the same cycle. The higher karma and therefore less bound to the cycle the creature is, the less the creature remembers of its past life.

But the Artificer is so low in terms of karma (even when compared to other creatures at karma level one) that when they reincarnate, they remember EVERYTHING. Even other creatures at karma one forget something, however small that thing may be, but not the Artificer. They remember their past lives like it was yesterday.

But that’s not all. The Artificer is so bound to the cycle that the very cells and DNA in their body remembers what it was like before reincarnation, and after being reborn as a new slugcat, the Artificer’s body will slowly change back to that of the old Artificer over the course of several years. Her fur falls out to be replaced by dark red fur, her body heats up until plants like bubbleweed burn at the touch, her spit slowly becomes more flammable and sticky, one of her eyes loses its vision, etc.

Her Citizen ID drone also always eventually comes back to her as well, as Citizen ID drones were built with the intention of being able to find their old owners after they reincarnate.

And finally, the Artificer can’t just not ascend. She can’t become an echo either.

Despite the Artificer disappearing when attempting to ascend with the implications that she became an echo, we never see a slugcat echo in any future campaigns. Even the Saint in their pilgrimage to see every echo doesn’t see her. In the same game where whether or not you ascended as a character like the Hunter affects the next campaign, that seems strange. So I’m running with that information and using it for whatever I want.

You become an echo when you attempt to ascend, but there’s something preventing you from ascending fully. Something binds you to the world and holds you back, so you get stuck in between existence and non-existence and become an echo.

The Artificer fits all of those requirements for becoming an echo. They attempt to ascend but her anger and past violence holds her back, so she should get stuck in between life and death and become an echo. But that doesn’t happen. The Artificer is so angry and full of violence that instead of getting fully stuck between existence and non-existence, she ever so slightly tilts the balance towards existence, as her low karma just barely outweighs the process of ascension and she comes back to the physical reality.

Or at least her conscious does. Her body is completely vaporized by void fluid for understandable reasons (it is some kind of hyper-acid after all), so the only thing that actually comes back is her consciousness, which immediately has to reincarnate into a new body. It also takes a long time for her consciousness to actually leave the void, several years in fact, but it eventually happens. So void fluid ascension is basically just reincarnation with extra steps and a several year delay to the Artificer.

Even the Saint would struggle to ascend her (and with how the Artificer just keeps coming back, she’s probably still around somewhere by the time of the Saint. (Probably thriving with her naturally high body temperature and ability to create heat making it easy to live in the ice age)), with the Artificer either shrugging off the Saints ascensions or taking multiple ascensions to stay down. And even then they’ll eventually come back to the physical world. The Artificer is permanently bound to the cycle and nothing can remove them from it.

The Artificer (or at least my version) is basically the Anti-Saint. The demon to the Saint’s angel.

Both are slugcats that are permanently bound to the cycle, with even void fluid being unable to ascend them, but:

The Saint cannot harm others.

The Artificer is a destructive force of nature that sent the entire scavenger population into a permanent dark age with her violence and destruction, leaving countless dead in her wake.

While the Saint cannot ascend themselves, they selflessly ascend others, even those that cannot ascend like Iterators.

If you take the game mechanic of death taking your karma level down by one as more than just a game mechanic, then the Artificer actively prevents other creatures from ascending by killing them and by doing so, lowering their karma.

The Saint is an echo and therefore exists in a state beyond the cycle.

The Artificer is permanently bound to the cycle and exists in a state permanently within it.

The Saint’s cycle is never-ending and bound to a certain point in time, with ascension bringing them back in time to the beginning of their journey.

The Artificer is bound to a cycle, but that cycle forever moves forwards in time, with ascension and death by old age just making them reincarnate into a new body at the beginning of its own new cycle.

The Saint is the last slugcat in the timeline.

The Artificer is one of the first, beaten only by the Spearmaster.

The Saint is the living personification of Karma Ten, the highest level of Karma and the Karma amount required for ascension.

The Artificer is the living personification of Karma One, the lowest level of Karma and the furthest you can possibly get from ascension.

[techmomma]

There is a degree to which we are responsible for our emotions. And certainly, we are responsible for our reactions and behavior.

In situations that we have control, situations where a friend is hurting us, like yes, maybe they shouldn't be hurting you. But there are also actions you have to take on your part.

Think of it like an ocean wave. If you go to the beach and a wave surprises you and gets you wet, and you're upset by this, that is perfectly reasonable.

If you keep standing there, letting yourself get wet and get more upset, when you can move away, then that's on you. I mean, it's your choice to do so. If you don't like getting wet and you just stand there getting wet when you can take a few steps back, you can do so. But it's also unnecessary stress, and you give up your own agency. Saying "I can't control this" when there are very much parts you can control denies your own responsibility in this situation. You can't control the waves from crashing, but you can step away from them.

If you know that a friend is going to keep disappointing you, there are two different actions we can take here: a proactive, and a reactive action.

A reactive action looks like knowing they're going to disappoint you or upset you, they do so, and you react to this. Nothing changes, and it keeps happening, and you continue to be upset. Your anxieties remain unaddressed and continue to hurt you.

A proactive action looks like knowing they're going to disappoint you or upset you and taking the steps to mitigate stress in anticipation of this. And THAT can look like setting down a boundary, removing yourself from the situation (no longer participating in the thing that your friend disappoints you about or no longer asking them to do X when they won't), or accepting that they will disappoint you--meaning you are at peace with the idea of them disappointing you, not "I am going to continue letting them disappoint me but it's going to upset me every time."

It means addressing the source of your stress and what upsets you before it actually does. And like. That's hard! It fucking sucks!

Especially for those of us who've grown up in situations where we didn't have any choice but to be reactive, because oh I don't know, we were children and didn't have any other options. And now we've grown up into adults who feel like there's no other option but to sit there and take it. Like there's no other choice but to be stressed and upset.

Part of healing from this kind of abuse, managing our stress in proactive, responsible ways means we no longer settle anymore, for being hurt. "Just taking it" when people hurt us and won't change. And as adults, that is kind of our responsibility and no one else can really do that for you. That's kind of part of being emotionally mature, is understanding yourself, and being responsible with your own emotions.

We sometimes can't change what other people will do. But we can change what we do, in response. And we can take care of our stressors before they stress us out.

[sorrowsaint]

im going to bed

heres a song i like goodnight

[bleaksqueak]

There's one weird page in chapter 3 where the coloring came out so weird, it looks like none of the other pages, and it drives me a little crazy. But, you know, whatever lol done is better than not-done. I have a huge buffer, I *really* should get to posting. I also want to get to posting bc (well, I want to, I like reading update comments more than you can know)...and bc I keep getting asks that have a few things that are quite literally in chapter 3, so I sit here looking at them, going (marge thinking sounds)

Well, here, have two unrelated statements that look amusing put together.