#anyways probably not gonna continue this

[seaseren]

Chiaki was so fucking sick of Starlight.

It’s not like they wanted to be. It’s a wonderful time of year, a time about giving and sharing and community- they’d heard enough speeches about the true meaning of Starlight to know that only a Grinch would oppose the holiday.

They had certainly heard enough speeches about the true meaning of Starlight. Early on, after the Calamity, they honestly leapt at the chance to be one of the Saint’s Helpers. It felt important- or at least everyone else acted like it was, and Chiaki just wanted to do something to give back. Even back when they were extremely sick, they did what they could- help make soup for the community, repair old and scavenged toys because there weren’t enough materials to make new ones, even making decorations that covered up lingering damage from that fateful day. The mood, still dark from the advent of another Umbral Era, was so much brighter for the holiday. It wasn’t just Starlight Cheer, it was a tangible reminder that they had survived, had persisted, that their traditions would not end with them. It was hope in as raw and undiluted a form as Chiaki had ever seen, and they had been honored to help make that happen. 

And every year since then it mattered less and less, and yet everybody else got more and more excited. As Eorzea came out of the Umbral Era, as the Empire lost more and more of their footholds in Aldenard, and things just got better, well, helping out on Starlight felt less like rekindling a precious flame and more like being the one stuck sitting around the campfire and poking it every half hour. Which was fine, Chiaki knew that doing good didn’t always feel good, but somehow inversely proportional to the actual substance of the holiday as how many godsdamned speeches people made about it. That first year nobody had really felt the need to pontificate on holiday magic, or togetherness, or goodwill towards man. It had just sort of been…implied. But as the years went on plays (about the true meaning of Starlight) started running through all of the Sixth Umbral Moon, and songs (about the true meaning of Starlight) filled the air in every Aetheryte Plaza, and speeches (about the true meaning of Starlight) seemed ready at everybody’s lips, no matter what the occasion was or if the holiday was actually relevant or how many times everybody else in the room had heard-

Chiaki took a deep breath and forced themselves to stop pacing about the room. This year, they had decided no more- no more helping with the holiday, no more carols, no more parties, nothing. They had procured presents for everyone they felt socially obligated to, left them in a heap on Tataru’s desk with a note detailed which was for who, and gone to the one place Starlight couldn’t find them- Norvrandt. Lyna had been a bit surprised when they showed up asking for work, but thankfully for Chiaki Norvrandt still had enough actual problems, despite how most of the Crystalline Mean managed to be just as concerned with money and status as any Ul’Da-

More deep breaths. There was plenty of work to be done in Norvrandt, and Chiaki was happy to do it. They had just finished some guard duty for the teams of people working to survey and assess the repairability of towns and farms once lost to the Sin Eaters, and now that they were back they were hoping to catch up with Ryne and lend their botanical know-how to her efforts in-

There was a knock at the door to Chiaki’s suite- the familiar call that Thancred drilled into all the Scions. It seemed Ryne had come to them. Chiaki rushed to pull a robe over their house dress, a small smile on their face, and opened the door-

That small smile suddenly had to fight to stay on.

From the other side Ryne smiled up at them- all decked out in reds and white, wearing a sweater despite the fact that Norvrandtic winters were mild. She had on a little cap, pom-pom and everything, that someone had surely handmade- of the three major culprits Chiaki didn’t actually know which was most likely to knit. 

“Chiaki!” she said, and they both hugged. “Lyna told us you were in town! She and I were wondering if you would help us with a project!” Chiaki knew what was coming next. They also knew that they didn’t have to do this, that agreeing to this would be reaching new levels of self-parody, and that it wouldn’t even be that hard to explain that they needed to head back to the Source. And yet even as their mind was reaching for last ditch escape plans- would it be feasible to spend a month in Elpis?- their mouth said, with an ease that came from far, far too much practice- “Of course! What can I do to help?”

[tango-but-everywhere]

bogos binted?

mumbo, wild life 5

[ID: a minecraft screenshot from within the spanners’ tnt minecart tower. from left to right, impulse, pearl and tango are all facing the viewer, though pearl is looking at tango. end ID]

[math-memes]

[upsidedownsmore]

(edited to fix page 3, oops!)

Hello! Here's a Hollowframe zine I made for my 2D design class final last week!

We basically got to make an 8-paged zine + poster designed for a double-sided 11x17" sheet of paper about anything we wanted, so I elected to just reuse stuff I already drew for my ongoing Hollowframe project since I was already buried under other assignments (though I still ended up putting way too much effort into it lol, I even remade the full group arrangement!)

The idea was to split the timeline of the Hollowframe project into four rough "phases", take a warframe from each, and then condense a bunch of info about the design I drew for them into a page each.

Hollowframe tag!

Google drive link with high quality pdfs, pngs, and more for printing and whatever! :) (and send me pics if you actually print it!!)

Pics of the irl folded zine and more under the cut!

And here's an unfolded view of all of the pages:

Feel free to try printing and folding it yourself! (here is a random zine folding tutorial I found: https://zineopolis.blogspot.com/p/h.html) (meant for 11x17" paper but idk maybe you can make a really small one lol)

I used Photoshop for the page backgrounds, Illustrator to arrange the pages themselves, and Krita to rearrange the full group image.

Pretty happy with how it turned out! I'm honestly mostly glad I finally got an excuse to remake that full group arrangement cause man that dull bluish gray background was not doing it for me anymore lol (though now it's 11x17" rather than 16:9 ratio so maybe not as good for desktop backgrounds but idk if that matters that much? idk i might adjust it back to a 16:9 ratio if people really want me to)

Anyways that's it for now bye bye :)

[midnight-the-goth-artist]

Guess who turns a year older today!

🥳💥🎂

But that also means…

A D U L T

[triglycercule]

can the mtt commit more crimes that just murder please i know theyre the MURDER time trio but ppppleasse,,,, please,,,,,,

they'd be terrible to be next to on the highway. horror's going 160 mph amd has long past gone over the speed limit. dust's out for BLOOD and by blood i mean your tires. he's somehow sniping those round rubber wheels from the high moving vehicle with the precision of a master fruit ninja player. if your car explodes or flips over in the process that's not his fault. and then to make matters worse for everyone on the highway killer's in the backseat scratching up the doors and windows of your car with a knife everytime horror gets close to another car and oops he accidentally just disfigured your face also did i mention theyre all drunk during this

ok so theyve all got the classic face WHY DONT THEY ABUSE IT!!!! horror gets to do a little paper mache to cover up his head hole and then wearing glasses. killer i dont know what the FUCK he can do to get rid of his perpetual tears but let's just pretend that theyre conveniently gone for now. and then all dust has to do is put down his hood! anyways identity theft is cool. imagine how much they could totally fuck up classic's reputation with this. set up fake tinder profiles and then scam people for their credit card info/free dates (while ordering every expensive thing) and stealing wallets. walking into various grillby's's around the multiverse and telling terrible jokes. like ACTUALLY bad jokes. and then of course just being a huge piece of shit at the bar. god theres so many things they could do pretending to be classic. which one of us is hikaru looking ahh except the only difference between the three is the color of the stains on their clothes (either gray (dust) black (killer) or red. well faded red (horror))

ROBBERY!!!! ROBBERIES PLURAL!!!??? train robbery gas station robbery bank robbery GOVERNMENT robbery (what would you rob the government for?? documents??? idk) anyways. mtt robbing a train except its just a really shitty plan and they dont know jackshit about what theyre doing. killer's taken over the conductor's cabin and now he is booking it. how fast are trains allowed to go idk but the maximum. anyways meanwhile horror's on the tracks fucking up the rails with his strength or whatever (listen i know he's weak but picking and choosing what hcs i believe in is my art) and dust is there to teleport him away before the train crashes into him and turns him into a trolley problem victim. and then of course that shit doesnt fucking work and the train just ends up flipping over and catching on fire or something (killer survives because of course he does he's killer). and then in the end dust just has to flip the entire train over and they just stroll into the part that actually HAS the money

and then they go out and get ice cream. sometimes the murderers need to take a break from murdering and just do NORMAL crime yk???

[front-facing-pokemon]

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[mossypidder]

I recorded all this back in February and March but never got around to editing it all together, so here it finally is. Definitely not because I’m really bad at talking to a camera and I feel like the whole thing awful. I’m gonna get better pictures in the morning, because I have a migraine. But this is my little whaleshark buddy. Any name suggestions?

[sophiethewitch1]

chapter 8 literally has like 3-4 more paragraphs what am i doing... im sitting at my desk rereading this thing and just staring staring staring like. geniunely have slammed my desk a couple times like a little baby throwing a tantrum <3 <3

[avephelis]

Ave. Avph. If you were a Pokémon gym leader what would your team and typing be!! Your nuzlocke Art driving me crazy!21!1!:3

so maybe i went a little overboard because i got excited. and maybe did a little play on caustic because that's silly. maybe.

also a post-game rematch team for good measure. BATON PASS ISN'T BANNED IN CORE GAMEPLAY BABY !!

[qoldenskies]

finished the outline for CW, its gonna be a total of 28 chapters! some parts in the middle im still a little iffy on but i have all the broadstrokes/know exactly where all the big important scenes are placed >:) including a lot of things im very excited for

chapter 11 in particular. them running low on painkillers is something i am setting up on purpose for the events of that chapter. this is your only warning

[harvestmoth]

eugh

[lunarrosette]

Happy hot Glenn Hondadays been forgetting to participate :P been ages since I’ve drawn his ass

Ignore the new ep only thing abt this bitch

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

I just got to reading a translation of "The wooing of Emer" online. Why is no-one (especially the online encyclopedias) talking about the fact Emer is fomorian?

why aren't the online encyclopaedias talking about it: bc they are not that useful for medieval irish literature most of the time, tbh, being heavily simplified and reliant on secondary sources that are often themselves not particularly reliable (although there have been efforts to improve some pages inc. wikipedia pages). loads of fun details missing from them, always

why isn't anyone else talking about it: eh. probably two main reasons

there's a lot of it around. cú chulainn's got a fomorian grandma (on lug's side) and no one ever really talks about that either. it's not that big a deal. i'm sure he's not the only one; can't throw a rock around here without hitting someone with a fomorian uncle or something. there's a lot more overlap / interaction between them and the tuatha dé danann than a simple oppositional binary would suggest, and family trees get fucky in general. being related to the fomoire doesn't automatically = being fomorian yourself bc belonging and kin-groups and stuff are a bit more complicated than that

i'm pretty sure it's only mentioned in tochmarc emire and only in passing and not directly in relation to emer herself, so it's easily overlooked even if you're dealing with that text and a lot of people will be dealing with other texts. it's also only in the later, longer redaction of the text and not in the earliest one, although so are a lot of things. if the authors thought it was important as part of her heritage -- whether they saw it as a good or a bad thing -- they would bring it up more often, but TE seems to be the only one that bothers to give background information about forgall's family tree, so mostly it looks like they think it's not that relevant. (although as it is not a particular focus of mine, it's entirely possible it comes up somewhere else and i just haven't noticed)

e.g. you might expect it to come up in fled bricrenn but it doesn't

sidenote: why the fuck henderson translations "ben ind fir as dech" as "wife of the best wight" i have no idea. it's just "fer"! it's just man! why are you trying to make cú chulainn sound even weirder than usual! it's a mystery to me. other than the fact it's from 1899 and people did whatever they wanted at that point tbh

(the parenthetical explaining the meaning of "Manach" is also editorial and not in the Irish; the meaning "tricky" may be more suitable bc it might have something to do with clessa, but that's getting into my friend emmet's in-progress research so i won't delve deeper there)

also, tethra, who is supposedly forgall's uncle in TE and who is described in the text as a "king of the fomoire" is a bit of a weird one iirc and there's potentially more going on with him than that phrasing suggests, although i can't remember the details and that's getting into cath maige tuired territory, at which point you're better off asking @margridarnauds bc it's not a topic i know a huge amount about

finally i'll be honest another factor is probably that there hasn't been a huge amount written about emer as a character. there's been a lot written about texts that she's in and her function there, but less on her just like, as a person (bc medieval celtic studies is a very small field, there are a lot of texts and characters, and there hasn't been that much written about anyone really). so lots of things don't get talked about. doesn't mean they're not worth talking about. just means nobody's got around to it yet.

[cinimuffin]