#ark: stars aligned

[rainesaur]

ARK: Stars Aligned

As 2024 draws to an end, I'd like to thank everyone. All my friends, family members.. hell, even people who have just interacted with my ARK ramblings. I have improved significantly this year, both in art and storytelling, and started to make the comic I have been dreaming of for more than eight years. And animations. Woah.

As a huge thank you... have a teaser of some dialogue of chapter 1. Hopefully Helena will be fine and mentally unscatched.....

[animeisforanimation]

Orb: about the movement of Earth. Episode 4. Part 1.

Nobody expected the polish inquisition comedy amidst tragedy.

I won’t delve into details in this post but this story is so good it deserves to be experienced to its fullest which is diving right in with as little knowledge as possible, so please skip this post if you haven’t watched the show already.

[SPOILERS BELOW]

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So, after the heart wrenching finale of the first ark, we start this new one with a chilling scene: beautiful stars that has been only a source of awe for the previous three episodes turn into creepy watching eyes.

This honestly unnerving by itself image is accompanied by a worst exhortation that amounted to “we’re here to suffer bitch”. Which kinda aligns with Christian teachings but… that wording was some other level of depressing.

And after that bleak journey into this episode’s mc we get the first joke that is not funny-funny but funny because it comes out of nowhere:

Two guys chilling in a rooftop, speaking about stars and then

And they proceed to mercilessly kill some rando (their job description is fighting duels for rich ppl).

Here I’ll jump ahead a bit: there are two scenes of this “work” and both of them are the weirdest most brilliant mixture of brutal realism and some Monty Pythinism: mc and his colleagues’ nonchalance and tears in their victims’ eyes, topic changing from very routine things to pondering whether a murderer’s soul (or any soul for that matter) can reach heavens.

I really think that Orb shows off its mastery of tone here, show us something so unbeatable to watch that we can only escape through laughter - and the story gives as a pardon, an indulgence for this frankly hysterical joy.

Going back to the first kill of the episode, we get the aftermath: two people talking about

Still images can’t show that but this is shot as a madman speech, half prayer half panicked plea. It’s bone-chilling.

But it’s followed by a hilarious 180:

You [oversharing]: life sucks :(

Your colleague: erm, actually it doesn’t!

You [horrified and ashamed]: ahah, sure you’re right sempai!

And I’m not even exaggerating. That’s literally how the scene goes:

It’s so sad and I feel such second hand embarrassment but at the same time the rapid change is absolutely hilarious. We’ve all been there. But more likely than not the topic wasn’t the immortality of soul and the inherent wickedness of earthly existence. Or maybe it was, we humans do tend to discuss strange stuff in the least appropriate circumstances.

<I’ve ran out of space for images so I’ll continue in part 2>

[semi-sketchy]

Okay I 100% legally watched Sonic 3.

6/10, overhyped.

I think I enjoyed the second movie more actually, but let me walk through this.

As a brief summary, basically Gerald was imprisoned for 50 years and designed the Eclipse Cannon (it's just a flying saucer laser) in return for his freedom. GUN built it, but it needs two keys to activate. So it's kinda a race to see who can get both keys and either destroy the world or save it. Gerald was also the one who hacked into the system and disabled Shadow's stasis as well as stole Eggman's tech to lure him to the research facility for a team-up. That's the basis of the plot.

Firstly, the beginning is...a million miles a minute. I thought the trailers were hypercut, but no the scenes really are just that fast. (At least until we get to Carrey. Animating hedgehogs is too expensive.) Sonic's having a party, GUN shows up like "we need Team Sonic" and Sonic is literally just like "I like the name, let's go!" that's it. No briefing, no convincing from the organization that tased and captured him, just go.

I did find the little "What did you do, Sonic?" "I don't know, I do a lot of things" line to be funny, though.

Also before they jump out of the chopper, Sonic does the "talk about low budget flights" but it is...so forced. Like the entire idea behind that line in SA2 is Sonic is being a cheeky bastard because they captured him, here he just randomly says it for no reason.

NOW THE ACTUAL BEST PART OF THE MOVIE, Shadow and Maria. God they were SO CUTE. Like this is the stuff I wanted out of Dark Beginnings. Maria on roller skates while Shadow pulls her around the base, just getting into kid mischief, watching movies, slipping keycards to go sit out and watch the stars... Oh my god AND THE BUNNY FACE SHE DRAWS ON HIS TUBE. These scenes? 10/10.

Actually, when Commander Walters finally briefs Sonic, the way it was edited really made me think "oh shit did...did Shadow accidentally kill Maria in this movie?" that's obviously not what happened, but I was interested to see what angle they took.

Oh yeah and Maria didn't get shot. She died from an explosion CAUSED by a gunshot. The solider was trying to shoot her though, just Walters knocked the gun because "that's a child!" So there's that. (Not allowed to hate the GUN commander here, after all, he's on Sonic's side! He can't be for child murder!)

It was also...not as dramatic as I thought it would be. It's like 30 seconds. Gerald runs up, says "We have to go, they wanna take Shadow from us!" Then 10 seconds later, boom. I'm not paraphrasing, by the way.

Oh yeah, I guess I should mention Gerald. He's 110 and still alive. I was not opposed to this, I like to think I'm receptive to changes in AUs and I was curious what they could do with Gerald actively manipulating Shadow. Here's what they do: Jim Carrey. It's just double the Jim Carrey shenanigans and yes, it is tiring. Shadow has a moment like "I don't know if this is what Maria would have wanted..." and Gerald just goes "it's not about what she wanted, it's about what they deserve" and that's...basically it. YOU COULD'VE DONE MORE WITH THIS, BRO.

On top of that, Shadow was not created: he was found inside a meteor that looks A LOT like the Black Comet. Considering this is meant to be modern day Earth and not a huge fictional universe like the games where there's advanced space stations and such in the 50s (oh yeah the ARK ain't real here) I'm fine with this. Keeps his alien origins while aligning to the movie universe.

And I was kinda surprised but I THINK there's a reference to the fandub?? Sonic calls Shadow "Hot Topic" nooo my secret!!! so that was interesting. Could also just be some of their famous product placement, but this movie is also less...commercial than the others. No Olive Garden mentioned. Guess they used all the ad space on Knuckles.

Anyways, while getting the second key, Shadow punches Tom because he has the key and is currently disguised as Commander Walters, the one who sealed Shadow away. This is important, this is like the basis for the entire end of the movie because apparently one punch to the chest is enough to knock Tom out and put him in the hospital.

Now Sonic ALSO wants revenge, so he gets the Master Emerald to go super and...I just gotta point out, Knuckles left it with Wade. The way EVERYONE IN THE THEATER GROANED WHEN WADE POPPED UP ON SCREEN it was beautiful. Nice to know we all hate the Knuckles show.

This all leads to Shadow's reform which was...ech? After Sonic is like "no I won't kill you, that's not who I am, revenge doesn't make things better" Shadow is like "I didn't have a choice in who I became" and Sonic says "you always have a choice", Live and Learn plays and they go to stop the cannon firing on Earth. It felt so...shallow for a character like Shadow. Nothing about how Maria loved the world, so he should protect the world to honor her memory, it's just "revenge is bad". I guess it's to be more relatable to Sonic because they lean more into them being two sides of the same coin, but it's just so rushed and hollow.

Meanwhile Eggman kills his grandfather in a really drawn out unfunny sequence because he wants to rule the world, not destroy it, but the canon is already set to fire so they instead turn it away from the Earth while Super Sonic and Shadow block the ray. (The moon getting hit is an accident.)

Also you have no idea how much I wanted them to show Sonic trying to save Shadow, but only getting his inhibitor ring, THOUGH SONIC IS THE ONE WHOSE SUPER FORM FAILS. In this universe, I guess it makes sense because Sonic isn't the absolute powerhouse his game version is. But does Shadow show his growth and try to save him? No, it takes Tails and Knuckles awhile to address that.

Anyways, the reactor is unstable so Eggman tries to buy time while Shadow pushes the weapon away from Earth and then it blows up, killing both of them. ...Well Shadow shows up in the post-credits alive so I guess just Eggman is dead...maybe. Because the other scene shows a shit ton of Metal Sonics a la Shadow Android and Amy shows up to save him as the 4th teaser.

Overall, my issue isn't that it changed SA2's story, I wanted something different because I literally have SA2 at home. It's just these changes have all their potential completely squandered in favor of a lot and I mean a LOT of Jim Carrey nonsense. He's like half this movie.

With the writing quality of these films, I shouldn't be surprised, but I really thought after the second movie, they were on a good track. After seeing everyone else love it, it's kinda disappointing to find it rather mid.

Oh yeah and nothing from the bowling tournament teaser line in the Knuckles series, either. After making us sit through that hell, I WANTED to see Shadow bowl. We truly were robbed.

[rainesaur]

Giggles in evil intention

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[rainesaur]

Some Mei and Diana school doodles because I miss them

[luxudus]

Neurodivergency becomes the Norm

old drawing that was meant to be my final spectember entry for this year.

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To the people who built the guidestones in orbit of our world. This message is towards you and the rest of your kind

We are the Savunato of the planet Apsis in the Oese system. it may not seem like it, but we believe to be your descendants. You may not remember our ancestors of your kind, who first landed on Apsis. It has been 10 million years since that happened. But we are happy to refresh your memory.

From the knowledge we gathered, catastrophe had struck your home planet. We don't know what happened, but it was bad enough for your kind to lose all hope of mending what was broken.

So you looked to the stars for a second chance. In a last ditch effort to save your kind, you launched the Eos Ark program. Sending 35 colony ships across a sea of stars, looking for any habitable planet to call home.

However those colony ships were flawed, they were made in a rush. And had no way of holding its own plants and animals to start agriculture. And too little gear for the colonists to survive in their current form.

Our colony ship just so happened to land here on Apsis. And we couldn’t have been more thankful for it. Apsis is very much like earth, having her own oceans and life. The flora here are fleshy and adorned with red broad leaves. While the fauna walked on three legs, saw with three eyes, and were protected by a woody exoskeleton.

By our sheer luck, the 6 planets of our system had aligned and gifted us a world we could actually survive on. The native life was digestible and the air was breathable. We had our second chance.

Our ancestors’ ship however, was ill-prepared. Again there were barely any tools to help them survive in their current form. We couldn’t shape the world to our needs.The world shaped us to her needs. We adapted, and we evolved.

Relative to your anatomy and lifestyle. Our arms became hyper-extended and stronger. Meaning we can switch between bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion on the fly. Our ancestral thumbs have become vestigial. In place of this, our Index and pinky fingers have become opposable so we can manipulate our environment once more. Our faces too have elongated, our teeth grew harder to get through the exoskeletons of our prey. And we grew fangs to slice through the trees.

One of the most significant things in our history was a slow but all encompassing change to the way we think of the world. Several mental states spurred on by genetics had spread across our population. Mental conditions you would classify as Autism, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, and so on. For you, you’d call us neurodivergent, For us it’s simply the norm, It makes us who we are.

Our modern society has been slowly reworked from the ground up. All in order to empower our new mentality. Now revolving around organization and efficiency. Our work ethic is streamlined to the point where we can get all the day’s work done before noon. With our goal being placed on long term results rather than pure production. Extreme emphasis has been put on the care and wellbeing for the developmentally disabled.

We put as much care into texture as they do with colors and patterns. Plenty of our cultures have a wide array of both visual and tactile patterns and a variety of textures to best fit the wearer. And affection through physical contact is revered as a sign of deep trust within many of our cultures.

We have sailed far beyond the reaches of our new cradle. Reaching new heights by reaching the other worlds that orbit our sun. We’ve explored, colonized, and have begun terraforming the most habitable worlds to make them as comfortable as apsis. We have even begun plunging into the interstellar depths to survey our closest neighbors.

One day we found your wayward stones. The plaques made of the spirit of our original homeworld, like the embers of a great fire holding out in the cold quiet night. We found them on the space station that brought you here, that brought our ancestors down to apsis.

I myself, the Savunato writing this, was one of the lucky few to board your station. We found it still orbiting apsis, Everything was still intact and untouched like a day hadn’t passed. Like we were connected from the depths of time.

We looked to the cosmos to find the others. Sending probes out into deep space with our history. And beaming messages to distant stars, All in hopes of finding you or another one of your descendants. No one’s responded so far, We may very well be the last living descendants of your kind.

If any of you are still out there. Let us show you we did it. we did it humanity, we made it. We survived. We made it through the toughest Apsis had to offer. We shared the worst mistakes the both of us have made. We learned for the better. We kept the flame going. May we survive for another 10 million years. May we be your successors.

If any of you are still out there.

I hope we made you proud…

[box-o]

I love seeing colony ARK fanart where there are shooting stars and constellations able to be seen out the window I really do but unfortunately these things simply wouldn't exist on the ARK because shooting stars only happen when small bits of space rock burn up in the atmosphere which the space colony ARK does not have, and constellations are very VERY specific alignments of stars millions and billions of light-years away viewed at a VERY specific angle to get the pictures we see so Maria and Shadow may not have had Ursa Major and Minor or Orion they may have had their own constellations that could only be seen from the ARK

[rainesaur]

Yes! They often stim vocally (and expierence mutal regression) and makes all kinds of noises, but their favourites are chirping and purring

fanfiction writers when a character is remotely non-human

[simstraterrestrial]

My Sims Kingdom Inspired Legacy Challenge

Recently, with the re-release of the My Sims games, I've began feeling nostalgic about the series. I played My Sims Kingdom a LOT as a kid and I love how the main Sim's games constantly make references to the My Sim's characters/games. Then, while i was deliberating on how to make the sims 3 more interesting, I decided to mix two of my most beloved games, My Sims Kingdom and The Sims 3, to create a legacy challenge!

I took some inspiration from the Store World Legacy by florydaax with this version of the legacy challenge as it encourages your sims family to move to a new town every generation to simulate the wandolier visiting different islands.

Each Generation is named after an island from My Sims Kingdom and is accompanied by my suggested world for your sim to live in.

Generation One: Capitol Island (Sunset Valley or A Small Empty Island)

Wow, you can't believe this is happening! You won King Rolands contest and are dubbed a royal wandolier! Now, with a magic scepter in hand, you are tasked with helping sims around the world. Are you up for the challenge?

Traits: Brave, Friendly, Sailor

Lifetime Wish: Seasoned Traveler, Great Explorer (Or any lifetime wish that aligns with your career path)

Careers: Any Public Service Career or Explorer*

Rules:

Make this sim a witch (You can ignore this one if you don't own supernatural/don't want to play with supernatuals)

Reach the top of your Career

Befriend 30 sims

Complete 10 opportunities (Another sim must be giving you the opportunity for it to count)

Reach level 10 of 2 different skills of your choosing

*If you have World Adventure, being an Explorer can be your career. To fulfill the reach the top of your career while being an Explorer, you must explore all ruins and finish all WA questlines. To see the quests look under WA opportunities. Generic Opportunities don't count towards finishing your career.

Generation Two: Renee's Nature Preserve (Riverview or Aurora Skies)

Your parent's dedication to helping others inspired you. After moving to Riverview, you decided that you want give back to the world by opening an absolutely adorable nature preserve for all the animals around town! Get ready for a full house because your home will be jam packed with fuzzy, fluffy, and scaly friends!

Traits: Animal Lover, Vegetarian, Eco-Friendly

Lifetime Wish: The Ark Builder, Animal Rescuer, The Zoologist

Careers: Gardening and Collecting

Rules:

Have 2 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 horses be apart of the household (You can only adopt one of each pet and will have to befriend/tame a stray to add any other pets to your household)

Own a bull ride game

Collect at least 10 minor pets (They cannot be brought)

Have at least 5 caught fish living in a fish tank

Make you sim home a nature preserve!

Generation Three: Cowboy Junction (Appalooza Plains)

You spent your whole life caring for animals, but you know you were destined for something greater. As a child, you discovered your talent for cooking and decided that serving delicious meals was your destiny. So you packed your bags and made your way to Monte Vista! Except. . . you somehow got stuck in Appalooza Plains along the way. Despite the slight mishap, you won't stop chasing your dream.

Traits: Natural Cook, Neat, Technophobe

Lifetime Wish: Celebrated 5 Star Chef

Careers: Culinary

Rules:

Reach level 10 cooking skill

Reach level 10 gardening skill

Reach the top of the culinary career path

Learn every cooking recipe

Host 3 great dinner parties

Own the Bistro and Hogans Deep Fried Diner

Make your house look like a restaurant

Generation Four: Rocket Reef (Lunar Lakes or Oasis Landing)

TODAY'S WEATHER CALLS FOR A 100% CHANCE FOR SCIENCE!!! Everyone in that dingy old town is a boor and HAS NO RESPECT FOR SCIENCE!!! You are a GENIUS and should be treated as such!!! Of course, the next most reasonable course of action is hopping in a spaceship and heading to outer space!!! At least on another planet you won't be judged for your "morally questionable" experiments!

Traits: Eccentric, Bot Fan, Computer Whiz, Genius

Lifetime Wish: Become a Creature-Robot Cross Breeder, More Than a Machine, Monster Maker

Careers: Science, Inventor, selling plumbots

Rules:

Reach level 10 logic skill

Reach level 10 handiness skill

Reach level 10 bot building skill

Reach level 10 of science skill

Reach level 10 of science career

Build a simbot

Build a sentient plumbot and install the steel chef and competent cleaner chips into it

Have a bad relationship with your plumbot

Make your home a science lab!

Generation Five: Candypalooza (Starlight Shores or Isla Paradiso or Sunlit Tides)

Your parent's obsession with science was really crashing your style. Yeah, being smart is cool and all, but you wanna be the life of the party! That's why you packed up your turntable and made your way to Earth. Get ready everyone, you're about to paint the town in multicolor LED's!

Traits: Party Animal, Social Butterfly

Lifetime Wish: Super Popular, Resort Empire

Careers: Resort Owner or Nightclub Owner

Rules:

Reach level 5 of the DJ Turntable hidden skill

Reach level 10 of the Laser Rhythm-a-con skill

Reach level 10 charisma

Have 20 friends

Throw a party once a week

Create a 5 star resort or open a fully upgraded nightclub

Generation Six: Forest of the Elves (Dragon Valley)

How did you get here? One second you were playing sweet tunes in the club and now you're suddenly being told that you are the chosen one!? Recently, the unicorns have disappeared and the animals are acting strangely. The elves in Dragon Valley tasked you with saving everyone by bringing the unicorns back to Dragon Valley. Will you be able to rock out hard enough to bring these mystical creatures back home?

Traits: Virtuoso, Loves the Outdoors

Lifetime Wish: The Fairytale Finder, Rock Star, One Sim Band, Vocal Legend

Careers: Musician, Singer, Horse Rider

Rules:

Reach level 10 of guitar skill

Reach level 10 of riding skill

Reach level 10 alchemy skill

Cure 5 cursed sims with alchemy

Befriend a Unicorn

Build the temple of the woods (add a hot tub in the temple)

Generation Seven: Cutopia (Hidden Springs)

Living as the child of a legend, you were always treated like a princess/prince. Despite getting spoiled with gifts and praise constantly, you felt like you had a different purpose. The world just isn't as cute as you think it should be. So, you decided to solve this issue yourself by making the town cuter, one pink house at a time! Maybe, along your mission, you might find the cutest thing of all - LOVE!

Traits: Snob, Hopless Romantic, Irresistable

Lifetime Wish: Home Design Hotshot, Fashion Phenomenon, Heartbreaker

Careers: Fashion Designer, Interior Designer

Rules:

Reach level 10 of the painting skill

Reach the top of your career

Make each townie or home you work on cute

Go on 10 dates

Have your home be worth at least $100,000

Lock your heir for the next generation in a dark tower or basement and make them home schooled (You can't let the world know that one of your children aren't cute)

Generation Eight: Spookane (Midnight Hollow or Moonlight Falls)

You lived your childhood surrounded in darkness. During the time you were locked away, you thought about life and it's meaning. As a result, you took to writing poetry to express your feelings of melancholy. Once you became an adult, you moved to a place where the people understood you and gothic self expression wasn't shunned. Now you can live your life freely as a writer. . . or you can get revenge on everyone who has wronged you and cover the world in darkness.

Traits: Bookworm, Brooding, Evil (optional)

Lifetime Wish: Illustrious Author, Emperor of Evil,

Careers: Author, Criminal, Mausoleum

Rules:

Write 5 poetry novels

Make $15,000 from book royalties

Learn the recipe to make cookies

Have your sim discover the meaning of life*

*This rule is a goal for you to set for your sim and entire depends on what you believe the meaning of life is (e.g Having a big family, having a lot of friends, being sucessful, having fun, etc). This goal can be more than one thing.

Generation Nine: Trevor Island (Monte Vista)

Art has always enraptured you since a young age. Music, painting, sculpting - the form of art never mattered. What you especially loved most of all was theater. The drama! The emotions! It is all so glorious. You knew you were destined to be an actor after your debut role as Spagula in your school play. So, you moved to Monte Vista to fulfill your artistic persuits.

Traits: Star Quality, Charasmatic, Dramatic

Lifetime Wish: Superstar Actor

Careers: Film

Rules:

Be in the drama club in high school

Reach level 10 of the film career

Become a 5 star celebrity

Obtain a statue of yourself

Complete the local celebrity skill challenge

Write an auto-biography

Own the town theater

Generation 10: Academy Island (Twinbrook)

Education is the key to sucess! Your parent encouraged you to follow you passion like they did. As it turns out, education is your passion! Make straight A's, find love, join a club or two, become valedictorian, and then guide the next generation into sucess!

Traits: Ambitious, Nurturing, Neurotic

Lifetime Wish: Perfect Student, Big Happy Family, Major Master

Careers: Education, Daycare

Rules:

Make perfect grades throughout your school life

Reach level 10 for 3 skills

Enroll in university and obtain a degree

Adopt 4 child sims (Your sim may not have any biological children)

Home School all of your children

Build the perfect academy with a classroom, dorms, and headmasters office!

If you have any suggestions or changes, please give them to me!

I cross posted this challenge on the sims 3 subreddit here.

[newprophets]

How does Romans 4 demonstrate that we are justified by faith and not by .

The Stars Above: Abraham’s Faith and What It Means for You When God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars, it seemed impossible. Abraham was old, his wife Sarah was barren, and their circumstances didn’t align with God’s promise. Yet, Abraham believed, and through faith, that promise became reality.The stars in the sky represent more than a beautiful sight—they symbolize God’s promises for our lives. Abraham’s faith teaches us that even when we can’t see the outcome, we can still trust in God’s faithfulness.

Starry Night Visualization:

Take a moment to imagine yourself standing under a vast night sky filled with stars. Picture each star as a promise God has spoken over your life. Just as He spoke to Abraham, He is speaking to you today. Now, consider what promises you are holding onto. Have faith that, like Abraham, your belief can turn those promises into reality.Constellation of Faith:Each star in the sky can also represent a biblical hero who was credited with righteousness because of their faith .

https://www.inspiredchristian.org/how-does-romans-4-demonstrate-that-we-are-justified-by-faith-and-not-by-works

Consider Noah, who built an ark before a drop of rain fell, or David, who believed he could defeat Goliath. Faith was the common thread that connected them all to God’s promises. Who are the "stars" of faith in your life? Reflect on those who inspire you.Interactive Faith Exercise:Write down three “impossible” promises you’re believing God for today. Like Abraham, don’t focus on the obstacles. Instead, focus on the faithfulness of the One who made the promise

.: #FaithAndStars #GodsPromises #AbrahamsFaith #TrustingTheUnseen #BelieveInTheImpossible..

[dexare]

[COR: SHESHA CLEPSYDRA - CF/Local:1955] - Part 1 of 3

[Mythology Analysis - by Agent [99] of the DieWell Collective] [SEC/00.66.99 Taken Earth]

"....on the way it's spread throughout the system, we estimate....Across the endless cosmos, were stars align-🎶...hm!/hm!/hm!...

99: Kör, you've been taking your time with that. Is it done yet?

Kör: Defragmentation is at 60%. Would you like to see the available data?

🎶🎶🎶

99: What is this Kör?

Kör: According to the information contained in the document, this file contains a song sung by Minueta Jenkins herself alongside several images.

The song is a revision made by Minueta Jenkins of the Folk Song "Braker" witch itself is based on the mythology of the world serpent "SHESHA CLEPSYDRA"..

99: Hmm.. Why would a woman like Minueta ever make a song like this?..

@^#^&##.......&$#^.....

99: Ok, so here it is 98, we'll kinda.. long fulkimg~ story UL-right~~

98: Just hurry up and tell me.

99: Alright, so there's this dragon.. He/she who dafuck knows, it doesn't know how to fly, and obviously, feels pretty sad about it. He travels the world until one day, he straight-up meets a demon.

The demon, unlike 99% of the people, is actually a pretty cool dud, and because he has a few thousand years freed up, he decides hes going to help out the dragon and teach it how to fly.

Now there's a problem the dragon has been roaming around the planet too much. Not only are his bones too heavy, but girl is ripped to kingdom come. He's got mussels for days, way too heavy to ever actually fly.

There's this big ark after that about them meeting different people, and basically, this were this religion gets all it's moral and ideology from. As they search for a way to help the dragon fly, the Dragon meets different kinds of asssholes and obviously end up dying in the most gruesome way possible, basic holy book stuff.

During this ark, you would expect to see the Dragon and the Demon get closer, but you kinda get the vibe that there's a wall between them. On top of that, even though this religion centers around the Dragon, most of what you can call the good parts and lessons come from the Demon, with the dragon being the one that unintentionally starts the problem in the fish place, it not his fault but it almost like everything about the world hates him.

Eventually, though, the demon unlocks a hidden power within himself after having this big enlightenment moment where the Demon becomes an angel again and redeems himself in the eyes of ??? Who dafuck knows? another fucking mystery.

Anyway, thanks to this, he can use his deus machina, magic, bullshit to finally give the dragon the ability to fly.

There, this moment in the book, we're the demon try's to warn the dragon about something inside him, but since were reading the book from the perspective of the dragon, and the dragon doesn't give a fuck. We don't get to know more about this warning. Suffice it to say that the dragon is so hype up about fly that he instantaneously decides to Fly off not even bother to say farewell or thanks to the demon, in fact we never hear about the demon after the Dragon leaves him and we're left to wonder what happened to him.

The book gets pretty weird from this point on. Up until now, the book has been pretty on the level it's a fantasy world, so to us, it looks weird, but to the people of local 1955, all of this sounds as realistic as a history book. The only thing I can maybe compare it to is Revelations from Bible in The Taken Earth. It has that same level of weirdness and metaphoric meaning.

Here also, where the famous song comes in, it's the page before the final chapter of the book. Oh.. and there's something you need to keep in mind. These people are in the medival ages, so keep that in mind while I tell you this next bit.

..The Dragon rises to the sky and chooses to never stop, never wanting for her talons to feel dirt again. He flies hooping to embrace the deep eternal blue, uncaring of the cost to her heart.

The sky's true face is made known to it, and although her eyes flutter, the Dragon gaze could see past a blinding light. Black waters teaming with pearls, that his eye alone could see before him.

Stars that mear mortals could never see as the God's themselves danced around him bound to eternal circles, in the center of witch was heaven. In the far distance, pearls of all colors.

Dancing in paradise, the Dragon was blessed with the heaven's warm embrace as it took hold of him in Ernest...

Bunch of trash after that, then it pick back up back her..

... Leviathan grabbed a hold of the dragon as the heavens themselves casted him away. Rejeted by the heavens, the dragon fell into the tendrils of the great beast, who drug the dragon to the sea.

Dejected as he fell, his mind wondered to the past, rejecting the very concept of his fall. He rose with anger as he battered his body in Rebellion against the world around him.

The dragons mind fractured, having only his promise to hold him true.. piercing the sky, the dragon splinters all of the beasts tendrils as he looks from above, at the body of the great Leviathan. The word itself, as it stood before him, as he vaow to keep his promise, plugging to the ground with such a force that Leviathan body crumbles into dust...

98: I don't know it's kinda hard to fallow the way you're explaining things, man.

99: I know, i know, but we don't care about any of that. Just listen to this last bit, and you'll see what I'm getting at.

..The Dragon rebirth by the orb of Turin was given into the flames of the true heaven's light and grew to understand the lie of the sky. Making a new vaow of chaos, he burned with greater glory than the false heavens and slaughtered the gods as they danced around it.

Surrounded by jewels, the dragon heart was now empty, with her promise fulfilled the dragons fractured mind, was now laid bare to madness. The only hope of escaping to find her past. Traveling to the north, the Dragon found pure light, where nothing existed beyound vail turbulant water. Not the land, nor the jowels could pearce the light, and even as the dragon saw the ocean im rage fighting to get trought the edge of life itself, nothing it could escape the the turbulant waters.

Rebellion.. The Dragon stretched out his wing and, without a thought crossed towards the light.. To the north lays, three pyramids were the Dragon vaows to kill it own past.

98: The Dragon attack the Congregation??

99: Yep, and not just that, I figured out where he ends up. The Dragon ended up on Earth Prime of all places. If we can figure out when, then... you get what I'm saying..

98: Then we can sneak inside and get access to the speakers, private network, holy shit 99..."

[DELUSION] [REBELLION] [JEWELS]

[Personal Device recording of agent 98]

"99: Folk- me man.. he fucking broke again, Ahh..

98: What? Did he overheat again?

99: Yeah, fucker decided to process the the same.. what 12-13 images over 852 times in a row.. fucking idiot.

99: Fuck that like what.. 97 million Aberration tears just for a couples of images. Jesus, he is dumb. "

[FRESH AIR] [MEMORY] [HATRED]

99: I feel like the biggest question about this entire book is the promise the Dragon made. It is pretty obvious to us that the dragon made a promise or, I guess, vaow to Minueta, but I can never see Minute of all people asking the Dragon to destroy a planet.

98: I don't know, but I'd be careful about making assumptions about this. I feel like we don't actually know enough to read into it like this. I read a little yesterday, and I get the feeling the dragon isint as Holy as the book paints him out to be, plus during the ark where the dragon travels with the demon you see him constantly looking for loops holes in arguments. I wouldn't be surprised if Minueta made a totally normal request only for the dragon to twist it for its own needs."

"99: I feel like you're trusting the Contance Foundation and Minueta, too much.

98: Maybe, but like you said, I don't see Minueta of all people asking for the end of some randome planet. By the way, what's up with the wizard dud in the image?

99: Aw yeah, that guy.. the books dosent mention him, but apparently, there's a separate scroll that talks about him. He knows as the Turin of Sahsha as apparently he'd been hunting the dragon until a woman killed him. You can guess who that was.

It pretty gruesome the way she kills him too, reminds me of when the dragon flies back up after being cast down into the ocean, apparently he twisted and contorted his entire body as he flew back up creating a tornado that split appart the planets atmosphere along side its magnetic field. "

98: Jesus man that fucking brutal.. did all of that already happen or is local/1955 still around.

99: On the galactic calendar well.. no, not yet, for us at least. It's still what 2 years out, I think. That is enough time for us to get ready. Apparently, the thing that gets the Contance Foundation to show up on Local/1955 is the arrival of the Phoenix version of the Dragon, so it's one of those loops where time keeps repeating. Works out for us since it gives us the perfect chance to steal from them.

98: Depends.. I'm still looking into what happens during the attack."

CHRONICLES OF REBELLION | FRACTURE [SHESHA CLEPSYDRA PART 1 OF 3]

Chronicles of Rebellion Track 09 - Braker Dans l'ombre des montagnes, un dragon rêve, Des ailes de feu, il désire qu'elles s'élèvent, Un démon bienveillant, avec un sourire, Lui montre les cieux, lui enseigne à s'envoler. Flieg, oh Drache, in den Himmel so weit, Die Sterne rufen, gib deiner Seele das Geleit. Doch in deinem Herzen, ein Schatten so tief, Eine alte Versprechen, das niemand dir schrieb. Il lève son regard, les étoiles scintillent, Un appel mystérieux, une histoire qui brille. Cherchant un destin, illustre et grand, Dans l'infini, il s'élance, le cœur battant. Flieg, oh Drache, die Weite ist klar, Die Hoffnung zu finden, es ist alles so nah. Doch die Stimme der Erinnerung, sie murmure so sacht, Ein ewiges Versprechen, das ihn in sich bewacht. Mais à chaque battement, la promesse résonne, Une chaîne invisible, un poids qu'il frissonne. Il veut l'oublier, fuir cette contrainte, Mais en lui, une flamme, une lutte l’atteinte. Er kämpft gegen das Echo, will die Freiheit spüren, Die Sterne, sie rufen, doch die Fesseln regieren. Im Herzen ein Sturm, die Dunkelheit weicht, Doch die Stimme der Treue, die niemals vergeicht. Alors il se rappelle, de son serment ancien, Le voler est un art, mais le cœur a son chemin. Dans un geste de foi, il choisit d’obéir, Plongeant dans la terre, décidé à périr. Mit einem lauten Donnerschlag bricht er die Erde, Die Maßen zerfällt, und die Sterne vergerben. Sein Herz schlägt schnell, in der Dunkelheit weit, Er hatte gewählt, in der Stille der Zeit. Il a volé, même au prix de sa chute, Sa promesse le guide, sa peur l’influte. Le dragon renaît, de ses cendres, il s’élève, Un destin trouvé, comme un souffle en trêve. Flieg, oh Drache, zurück zu dir selbst, In der Dunkelheit strahlst du, wie ein Licht in der Welt. Sein Versprechen nun stark, führt ihn zur Ruh, Der Drache, der fliegt, ist endlich er selbst, im neuen Licht, im neuen Flug.

[rainesaur]

Kinda shit aberration finn and helena would do

Nerva & Rockwell

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NOCTURNUS "Unicursal" LP 2024 ('...A goddess appears now before me holding an emerald symbol, I see. She says it's mine to be. Victory, my soul is now free !')

1. Intro 2. The Ascension Throne of Osiris 3. CephaloGod 4. Mesolithic 5. Organism 46B 6. Mission Malkuth 7. Yesod, the Darkside of the Moon 8. Hod, the Stellar Light 9. Netzach, the Fire of Victory 10. Outro

"Secret chambers in the pyramids, the great gallery of Cheops Sits the iron throne of Osiris, the gateway to the sky

Mountain of light, ascension device Transforms the pharaoh, to a being of light

In the chamber a wooden chair, covered in sheets of meteoric iron That has fallen from the sky, forms a stargate to the stars

Teleportation device, the iron throne Beaming the pharaoh, to Orion's gate

The king is a star that illumines the sky, a star of gold The brilliant light, Osiris the king, companion of Osiris

In the king's chamber there is a shaft, that aligns With 3 stars of Orion's belt, the pharaoh did journey to Orion's gate

Across the starry sky in an astral ark, the pharaoh sits In his iron throne, together they form the ark-throne of Osiris

The ascension throne of Osiris

In his iron throne, crafted by Ptah, the transfigured pharaoh, becomes the iron man Transforming man to god, made of stellar-light, crowned as king and god, I shall never die !

I shall never die"

Unicursal | NOCTURNUS AD | Nocturnus AD (bandcamp.com)

NOCTURNUS AD - CephaloGod (official video) (youtube.com)

NOCTURNUS AD - Hod, The Stellar Light (official video) (youtube.com)

[evercaptor]

I saw the sonic film

4 stars, I liked it more than I liked Sonic 2. spoiler thougths under the cut.

Up front, Sonic Adventure 2 is absolutely my favourite Sonic story. It was an absolute staple growing up and I must have more than a thousand hours across my lifetime playing it, which is something I can only honestly say the same for Splatoon (thanks, Ra) and Destiny. It wasn’t my first sonic game, I’m old enough that the original Sonic for Mega-Drive was (in ‘93 i think) so I’m not in the camp of “this is the definitive Sonic because it’s how i came to know the franchise. I played Adventure on Dreamcast and SA2 on Dreamcast also. 

So the film first of all had to not fuck it right up. I’m happy to report that it was not completely fucked up. It’s a 90 minute adaptation of a 90-ish minute story that kind of picks and chooses what it wants to fit the bastardised mould of the Sonic Movie Universe. It meant some of my favourite scenes were just straight up not adapted and to be honest, I don’t think they hit the mark on this front even with the scenes they DID choose to make overt references to, talk about low budget flights...

I think I’m being unfairly hypercritical with the things they left out: Maria does not get shot: I think this really dilutes Shadow’s Character arc and his just revenge. I think having Gerald on-screen as flesh and blood was a big mistake that further makes the surreptitious manipulation of Shadow’s memories a non-factor, but without Amy to make that bridge to Maria, that does paint them into a corner there. The link and brotherhood with Sonic through shared experiences was a positive change, and I think shadow seeing himself in Sonic was well foreshadowed.

I did like the humanising they gave to shadow with his retained memories, pleasant ones of his life with Maria. The games really didn’t ever slow down to give us a taste of their connection and I think it was absolutely necessary. People are going to be fanonising Maria and Shadow skating around the Space Colony forever from this point on, I guarantee it.

Sonic had some great character development in this most recent outing, his mirroring with Shadow was done really well and I think really well weaved into the plot. Seeing Sonic's family, relying on his bonds, recognising that support and harmonising with them directly about Shadow’s cold loneliness and seeing the way they both grow from their interactions with each other in basically every scene was a great addition that the games lacked. Their rivalry

Speaking of diluted character arcs, They did my boy Eggman REAL rotten. Spending the entier runtimedoing his fucking damned-est to never say “grandfather” in the same way twice like he’s dealing with some Fae and being the side-kick in the plot? Feels forced, feels like such a betrayal of the power-mad, feminist narcissist we get in every other channel, it sucks like crazy. There really only needed to be one Eggman in this film, He’s such a large presence it cannibalises itself. For as funny and enjoyable as Carrey’s scenes are, with himself I think we could have done more with a more sadistic Eggman who realised too late that Shadow’s goals and his never aligned the way he’d hoped. An aside, I hope Carrey got paid twice for this gig.

The odd way they’ve written the chaos emeralds means chaos control is off the table, too. I can see why you wouldn’t want that in your story, but it can easily be handled in the same way they handled Super Sonic, which I appreciated the lampshading on

I think the trimming of the race to the Space Colony ARK in lieu of some nonsense in G.U.N. Headquarters was disappointing when they could easily have put in more beloved scenes from the original material. I’m talking about “that blue hedgehog again, of all places” and I’m talking about “Super Laser PISS.” Especially peeved about the latter because they were SO CLOSE with the panning shots in London and Tokyo of the giant Screens, and they wasted the TRHEAT of the Eclipse cannon with no demonstration. Eggman even hacks them, in the last stretch to make his confession to Stone!

Finally, pour one out for my best boy, BIOLIZARD. You got one cameo, and it was a fucking great one.

My thoughts on lingering plot threads:

I think they’ve set up the Black Arms very tastefully for either a spin off or use as a future plot hook

Seeing Shadow alive and well in the second after credits stinger clears up my least favourite shadow plotline, no shadow cyborgs, n9o clones.

Amy looked great. I’ve never seen a cinema clap before. They clapped for her, great introduction

My boy metal sonic is looking fly as fuck. I can’t tell if they’ve doing a “Metal Overlord” or making a reference to Sonic the Comic’s Brotherhood of Metallix, but I'm interested. Whatever it is, I hope it’s original and I'll leave that thought there.

I think Eggman’s exit was too final (although we never see the body). I’d love to see an alternate universe Eggman show up (probably like the Archie comics) especially because the father/son dynamic of Eggman and Metal is so interesting (still excited to see sage show up in future Sonic titles)

[onelastchorus]

fontaine megathread

full of spoilers.. duh

archon quest act i

they're referring to the eremites. couldn't leave sumeru without one last sprinkle of racism lmao.. fr love how this was one of the first things i saw in fontaine. "see something, say something." STFU!!!

the fontaine VAs fucking STEPPED UP!! like why is lyney's VA so good.. the decision to open the quest with three of the most off-putting and unnerving characters so far.. lyney truly sounds deceiving, it really felt like you couldn't trust him. and then lynette is just ominous

and then furina.. miss focalors, the star of the mf show. whatever they're paying the VA is not enough because she's incredible. bravado, insecurity, instability, fear, hunger.. all the emotions are portrayed so well

fuck them for this one.. THERES SO MUCH TO UNPACK. i mean, supposedly teyvat has flooded before, this would not be the first. they're so unsubtle with the noah's ark and biblical themes. AND ARE WE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE TEAR?? THE LYNEY PARALLEL?? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

that moment when u realize teyvat is world without catholic guilt

lynette is so me. we both got that selective mutism rizz <333

YEAH WE GET IT, WE GET IT!! no subtly smh

the traveler bringing this up as if they didn't directly contradict each other. also another point. if the oratrice relies off belief in justice, not necessarily the archon, could that be applicable to other archon related things? this is feels odd because sumeru and mondstadt's people's entire philosophies rely off of wisdom and freedom respectively, yet they hold the "weakest" archons. and then there's inazuma, where modern citizens hate the raiden's vision of eternity, yet the raidens are arguably the strongest we've met yet

the way i fucking screamed i cannot believe we got skirk name drop

if this is actually meant to be foreshadowing i'm gonna laugh so hard

i'm genuinely so confused by the whole neuvillette situation.. so everyone knows hes not human, but no one knows hes the hydro dragon?? what do people think he is?

the way he fucking hates her i can't breathe

i couldn't get over this why did it jumpscare me.. paimon is funny again god bless.

did she happen to write 2021 aoty if i can't have love, i want power

insert speech about how hydro is truly about the split of ego, how someone presents or is perceived is always different from how they truly are or think. fr tho her design is SO GOOD. THE EYES!! THE TEARDROP ELEMENTS!! THE JELLYFISH ASS HAIR!! THE SILLY HAT AND FRILLS!! after anemo, i already feel as if furina's character aligns most with her vision holders

i've already seen everyone talking about this but we were literally hanging out with childe at lunchtime can we chill /j

with all that being said tho, i get it.. why did they lie did they just not expect this to be brought up its gotta be literal public knowledge

"SHES YOUR FATHER?" im gonna puke im so gay im so gay im so gay im so gay

cannot believe they went there. so fucking dark. kudos to hoyoverse.. anyways lynette come here my love i love u sm i will protect u

fr tho i loved the fact that we had a real prelude for this region.. i think the excuse to make something a little more isolated and establishing in it's plot is already super beneficial for whats to come. we got a lot more character exposition, and even the time to install these cool archon quest specific mechanics. i loved solving everything, it was all SO fun but they also got to have these really emotional beats, i feel this is some of their best pacing yet.

imo the last half of sumeru really helped hoyoverse find their stride, fontaine so far has similar storytelling energy to the whole heist bit of sumeru.

the best thing however might've been the SCORE??? they went out of their league with this one, it's the most fitting, noticable and influential instrumental work they've done in an quest imo

[rainesaur]

This is literally finn with Rockwell omg guys 💀

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby