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[2wo-knav3s]

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[egophiliac]

I didn't actually mean for this to coincide with Twst's third anniversary, but hey, good timing is good timing. happy anniversary, everybody! 🎉🎉🎉

SO YEAH: a bunch of you guys were asking about prints of my unique magic/signature spell posters, so here are 6.25" x 4.25", 300 PPI versions of the images (the extra .25" is for bleed, so that a 6 x 4" print will still have the white border without it getting weirdly cropped). my color experiments did, uhhh, not go very well, so there's no color-correction, sorry. :') they should print reasonably okay, but it will depend on your settings/printer/paper/etc., so I recommend doing test prints first if you can!

this is current with the Japanese version, so it does contain spoilers through episode 7, and for the Glorious Masquerade event -- I plan on keeping it updated as I do more, so it will continue to be pretty spoilery! no plACEholder though, sorry, I didn't do him at print resolution. :( there are also a couple of alternates, if you decide you like those better: a red background version of Cater (to fit in more with the rest of the hearts boys), and a version of Ortho's with the ??? in ascii instead of binary. edit: and now also the unused version of Vil's!

disclaimer: these are for PERSONAL USE only! please do not sell them/make them available for sale in any way (including uploading to print-on-demand websites). also, please don't repost, reupload, or use them as bases/materials/etc. (though if you want to use them as inspiration for your own art in this style, absolutely feel free! ❤️)

thank you!

[nuttersincorporated]

Do you think the reincarnated beings from the Theraprism get to keep their memories in their next lives? I’d hope so because otherwise what is the point of making them go to therapy first.

If they don’t get to keep their memories, the Axolotl is forcing Bill to go to therapy and, when his therapists decide he’s done enough healing, he’ll essentially have memories and personality reset anyway.

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Am I supposed to take it that by burning the club book pages, Jeeves is effectively forfeiting his membership in the Junior Ganymede? I mean, even if they never find out about the multiple times he’s used it for blackmail, and even if he manages to convince them that the pages were destroyed by accident or by Bingley or something, he presumably won’t be writing any NEW pages. He can’t very well explain to his club “no, see, my employer and I are married now, so his exploits are none of your business anymore.” He said himself, club rules are very strict

Plus another thing: I know it’s pretty much established by now that Bertie never wants to marry, but this basically formalizes it, doesn’t it? Jeeves doesn’t work for married men and Bertie’s fiancées tend to want him to get rid of Jeeves, so by telling Jeeves that he can stay permanently (permanently!) in his service, Bertie is essentially promising to remain unmarried forever

Look at them forsaking all others in order to be together

[meteor-moon]

something something worthy goes back to the ruins of trunswick manor

[bunnieswithknives]

As an avid D&D player and DM, I love this magic system you've created so much- bc it means that necromancy exists like it does in D&D, but because David is David (TM), he just goes "yeah, but yk what would make this better? Puppets." and just is flying by the seat of his pants trying to create a fusion of DIY crafts and reanimation. he even could be inadvertendly creating an entirely new form of magic while messing around with the Book and his puppetry, but no one will ever know bc he just wants to play around with his little flesh puppets instead of, idk, sitting down and writing an actual grimoire/codex on it and i love him so much for that <3

Really tho!! This is the closest anyone has ever come come to actual reanimation in this universe, not just souless zombies or possessed lamps, real breathing creatures with the souls of people and working innards to back it up! And he's not even writing it down!

[korrasamibottles]

I don't have my thoughts sorted out in a way that makes sense yet, but I'm thinking about Mako's "I just want you to know I'll follow you into battle no matter how crazy things get. I've got your back, and I always will" scene from the finale. Like it took a lot of maturity on both their parts to acknowledge that they were absolutely the wrong people for each other romantically, and also that maintaining their friendship was worth the effort because the bond they have is real, it just doesn't look the way they originally thought it would. I just like platonic ma//korra a lot.

[okayto]

There is a great weariness upon my soul (library books are overdue)

[overelegantstranger]

i am chewing the walls because yesterday i woke up brimming with ideas for my (hopefully) [eventual] bricks and mortar yarn store and i can't DO anything about it

[orangechickenpillow]

Somehow Edgar Allan Poe exists in the Baldur's Gate universe and I'm convinced that, among other things, that's what Astarion is always reading at camp

[orcelito]

Crochet Update

Last night vs right now. The current progress on the maybe-scarf. I might just run out of yarn before I reach actual scarf length, but I'm curious what the full length of one of these yarn balls is. Kinda just getting a feel for it & all.

I Also bought a little book that teaches some crochet basics, and spent some time going through some more stitch styles. The above scarf is made with single stitches, and the following...

The half-double stitch

The double stitch

The treble stitch

Fuck the treble. The process for doing it was so different from the others, I Hated it. Maybe my hands being tired also doesn't help, but I am Grrrr at this one. Final product was okay at least.

These 3 little bitches took me 2 hours to make. Ugh.

[aldieb]

i just switched my browser to firefox (from brave bc i’m a freak and they were kind of changing the game tracking protection wise like 4 years ago) and it took a mere 15 minutes to port everything over perfectly ✨ i sound like an ad sorry lmao but i’ve been wanting to do this forever and was prevented by needing chromium’s ability to use different profiles in the same browser for my old job. which apparently already got fixed by firefox getting containers. whatever i’m a new man now

[cesium-sheep]

*gritting my teeth* yes international shipping is expensive but I have already decided that my friends are worth it and my partners with jobs both said they are happy to facilitate me sending these things, even if I do not have the money myself.

[yuyuisabookworm]

I haven't been active as of late but officially I'm going to just put it out there; I'm going on a small hiatus for this blog and for Aoab stuff. Just for a little while, while I sort out some life things.

Don't worry I'll be back eventually I just need to focus on some job and life goals and it's taking up all my time and energy as of late.

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

so anyway I took another look at the old hatefic which went on pause because the source material is actually unredeemable but I still really stand by all the bits I added and the ocs and the concept overall so here's what I'm thinking:

actually go through and check which lines are mine and which are sourced so I can be sure I'm not plagiarising any phrasing. it's unlikely bc I remember really hating the source writing style and rewriting lots of entire scenes to be less painful to me but I need to be sure

rework some of the characters and setting to actually work for me, which also gives me tons of leeway for the plot stuff too. scrap anyone who isn't an oc and create ocs to replace anyone who's still necessary

figure out what's going on with all the characters who don't take off on a trauma bonding camping trip

figure out what the actual plot is. there's enough foreshadowing I didn't bother to figure out the meaning of that I should be able to do that, especially since I no longer have to be in any way beholden to the source worldbuilding

assess how gay it is and then make it gayer

[deanmarywinchester]

finally finished the death and life of great american cities after carrying it around for months not reading it and was reminded of an essay I wanted to write months ago about the actual star (the novel about a radically open/democratically surveilled utopia) and times square red times square blue, which embroiders on some of the death and life’s ideas about benevolent social surveillance. and the point of the essay, which I’m not writing at least until I read more people responding to jacobs, was basically: who is social surveillance good for?

both delany and jacobs paint a pretty utopian picture of city streets in which order is kept by constant eyes on the street and a duty of care felt by the community. delany specifically includes unhoused and sex worker communities in his idea of the fabric of a neighborhood, and although I was already suspicious of how his ideal social surveillance interacts with marginalized communities, I was even more surprised at how much the death and life relies on the idea of creating an ideal environment for spending money to make a neighborhood function.

it frequently invokes small shopkeepers as goods in that they keep peace over the streets to ensure that customers feel safe there. so if you’re not a customer and your presence makes customers feel unsafe, die I guess? sometimes the book also conflates unvisited (+ therefore dangerous) spaces with uneconomically productive spaces. this can make intuitive sense; if people don’t frequently pass something like a library or park on their way to engage in the economy in some way (work, shop), it can become a dead zone with easy opportunities for crime

but this feels so cynical! ‘if you’re not making and spending money there’s no need to go places’ is so bleak. I don’t know. maybe this made more sense in jacobs’ time because there was more of a culture of eating your meals at cafeterias and patronizing your local pub and drinks weren’t $14 and people weren’t constantly warned that eating out was what was keeping them in debt. because right now I would kill for more places where I could go hang out for free but in jacobs’ mind those places would become dead zones. and maybe they would! if my neighborhood had a free community center I can easily see nobody going because there’s nothing to be gained by it.

this post got away from me but the point is “how do we create a community that includes people on the margins and places with noneconomic uses when everyone is living in atomized units and spending all their time surviving.” also “why don’t we live in the dispossessed.”