#calculated decisions

[howdoesone]

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[lesiasmadness]

[driedlillies]

“The world needs more hashimada with Hokage!Madara fics” I say into the mic. The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice from the back speaks and commands silence in the room.

“He’s right!” someone says. I look for the owner of the voice. It's Senju Hashirama.

[shizunitis]

i know this is a very serious scene, but. come on man. not even a giggle?

[geodesick]

[ID: a drawing of pye from outer wilds, standing with her writing staff. she's wearing an orange nomai space suit without the helmet, and she has a light brown face with curly darker brown fur. end ID]

figuring out how i want to draw the nomai, so here's a pye since i am obsessed with her !!!

[poly-ot4]

against popular conceptions, 3zun (happily, together) do not in fact have a single braincell

[polarisblitzwing]

WELCOME TO THE FRI3NDSFOR3VER AU

Ford's World - Dimension Fri3nds46/’

◇ Alternative Earth Variant ◇

● Humans have wings and feathered tails

● Alternative Pines family decisions timeline

◇ Stanford Pines ◇

● Ford is a minor god of dreams and a self-proclaimed god of anomalies

● 30 years old here (Young Immortal)

● Met Bill when he was 5 due to him attempting an interdimensional dreamwalk link, with Bill trying the same thing by chance, something that wouldn't work at their age without each other

◇ Gods Among Them ◇

● Most gods were mortals whose power was drawn to them like a magnet due to their personality in some way

● Fairly secretive and prefer to hide their works

● Rely on their believers to notice their efforts, resulting in an increase in power

● Can reveal themselves to the public, but building up power from faith alone is more sustainable for less powerful gods

● Stop aging between 25 and 100 (depending on what age someone wants to live forever)

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Bill's World - For3verEuclydia

◇ Alternative Euclydia Variant ◇

● 360 years is the average lifespan of a Euclydian in this au

● No massacre

◇ Bill Cipher ◇

● Bill is a minor god of dreams and a self-proclaimed god of weirdness

● 30 years old here (Young Immortal)

● Met Ford and Stan when he was 5

◇ Gods Among Them ◇

● Only gods have wings and tails as a power symbol

● Their wings and tails are invisible to anyone that doesn't believe in them specifically

● “Omnipotent” Euclydian gods only know everything about their own world. Bill's knowledge of the third dimension is seen as false teachings to even them.

◇ Bill’s Family ◇

● Scalene is a goddess of Truth and Euclid is a god of Reality

● No one believes Bill is a god except his parents, as godhood is a power grant at birth to someone who the power is drawn to here. It can skip generations.

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NOW, ON TO THE ACTUAL DIALOGUE FOR THIS DRAWING! FANFIC TIME ~

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Bill: So here's my problem - I need to show them the stars. It gets real flat to hear “you're delusional, Bill” and “stop talking about a third dimension!” “Shh, you're gonna get arrested!” “It's not real!” Over and over again. It's time to change up the law and their perspectives.

Ford: Hmm.. that'll be quite the endeavor. You might need more power for that.

Bill: Ohh-ho-oh, definitely. Some of my ideas get real difficult along the way. The kind of stuff only a god with twice my power could pull off. 

[ Pulls up a holographic board with his first idea. ] 

Bill: If I could turn their eyes towards the stars and give them the same vision as I do, that'd be ideal. 

[ Ford manifests a danger sign over Bill's board; a buzzer sounds in warning. ]

Ford: Doing that to the entirety of Euclydia could potentially be devastating. Even if you get that newfound power, without centuries of diligent practice, you could end up permanently mutilating thousands of people in the process. Too risky. 

Bill: Uuugh… even if the people I wanted to show the most were immortal too, I don't think I could put up with more of their talk for that long. It has to be this century.

Ford: I get where you're coming from. I’ll do my best to make sure it happens when we figure out a plan that won’t have too many risks involved.

Bill: I could probably have the world dream of stars if you help, but that isn’t real enough to me. It drives me crazy that I can’t see you in real life. 

Ford: We’ll meet one day, I promise it. 

Bill: I sure hope so, Sixer. 

[ Pulls up two more holographic charts. ] 

Now.. back to my list of extremely great ideas.. what if I put really tiny stars in the world and contained the heat? Or flipped the world on the y-axis just to prove a third dimension exists first?

[ Ford manifests two more warnings in succession. ]

Ford: Could easily start a fire if anything went wrong, and for all we know, flipping the world vertically could cause everything to fall bottom to top infinitely until it’s fixed. Also runs the risk of killing a lot of Euclydians. Not to mention there could be other forces in your space that could affect the world.

Bill: Yeesh. Alright then, you got any ideas?

Ford: Actually, come to think of it.. 

[ Ford summons a hologram with a vision of his own forming. ]

Maybe instead of dreams, we tried something just a step up from multi-dimensional dream-walking, something like astral projection. We bring them out of their bodies, but tethered to their world, into space. Without the limitations of their physical forms, their eyes should be able to see more than what they could before.

Bill: SIXER, YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!

Ford: Hah, well, I try.  

Bill: NOW THAT'S SOMETHING I COULD ACTUALLY PULL OFF RISK FREE! It might take splitting up the days people get to see it, but, they’ll finally see.

Ford: Well, hold on, splitting up the days could be risky for the groups who see versus who don’t on the first day, so, here's what I'll do. I'll give you my powers for as long as you need them for this. I would like to help personally, but I’d need to physically be there. This will be my contribution to your paradigm shift for Euclydia.

Bill: ..you really trust me that much? 

Ford: (smiles and nods) Of course. You're my best friend, my muse, the sun in my galaxy, Bill. I want you to be happy.

[ Ford offers his hand and godly powers out to his partner. ]

Bill: (chuckles, smiling) You’re the best, Fordsy.

[ They shake on it. ]

[piratesexmachine420]

Interesting Calculator Fact Number 7: these four (4) screenshots from TI's 2023 annual report are the only instances of the word 'calculator' in the entire 160 page document.

As a point of comparison, there are fifteen (15) instances of the word 'automotive'. Not only are calculators not a major market for TI, they're other. Miscellaneous. Lumped in with DLP (3 mentions, all in these screenshots) and ASICs (likewise). Ouch.

TI will charge you one hundred and thirty-nine United States dollars and ninety ninety goddamn cents for a base model TI-84 Plus -- a graphing calculator from 2004 with a 1-bit monochrome LCD and a z80 (not ez80) processor -- then they'll take your money and wipe their ass with it. It goes in the envelope marked "Other". "Cannot be aggregated with other operating segments." "Does not meet the thresholds to be individually reportable." Motherfucker doesn't even include batteries. You have to go buy AAAs. Fuck you TI.

(You may also note, if you've seen the same Tumblr posts I have, that there is no section marked 'defense'. No trickery here, they sold their defense business to Raytheon in 1997. TI still sell stuff to the military, of course, but they don't make bombs anymore. For whatever that's worth.)

[decepti-thots]

so this moment is obviously first and foremost a fakeout (it exists so when we later return to flashbacks, we will assume this is when mesothulas is being thrown in the noisemaze and therefore that prowl did it- rather than said flashback being a new, later one and it being impactor) but also. do u ever think about the fact that prowl did in fact go 'oh, i could just...' and couldn't commit because he's a fucking coward who refuses to get his own hands dirty even as he's perfectly happy to ensure the terrible thing still happens. i do!!!

[lucky-clover-gazette]

yona is obviously a lesbian and she and sidon are each other’s beards. you know how the zora are, she’s also royalty from a different domain. it’s better than marrying people they’d actually have to be into.

i choose to believe that link yona and sidon get brunch every other weekend, and yona takes many diplomatic field trips to gerudo town for no particular reason. or, alternatively, they’re bi4bi.

kind of a dick move nintendo, you could have just left sidon a bachelor, but this is what we have to work with i guess

[babygirlificationn]

i love how you give him the ai pioppi scar whenever it's chronologically appropriate

i do take my tom scott lore quite seriously.

[feech]

Its been like two months and I'm still thinking about The Office of Never Was and how ruthless Ianto was. Initially, the whole situation was an accident, but Ianto took it way too far after he messed up. He retconned people's families that the couldn't remember the person who died. He says he thought it seemed kinder than letting them grieve but personally I think its so much worse. And then at the end, deliberately leaving that man locked in the building to slowly starve to death (or potentially get eaten by smart killer rats) and choosing to retcon himself so that he would forget the whole incident rather than live with it on his conscience.

The fandom tends to really focus on how sweet and thoughtful he is and how much he tends to people please but he can be goddamn terrifying.

[cicadangel]

i am cursed with liking guys who would NEVER have the guts to ask a woman out. which means I must be strong. guys I'm plotting okay. guy I went to elementary school with. goes to a diff high school. saw him at my friend's orchestra concert. will be talking to him tomorrow. main goal is to find a way to ask him to help me learn tennis (I am playing this spring for just smth fun to do and he has been playing for many years). he doesn't have snapchat which means we must do this the old fashioned way. this is the type of guy I have to be very forward with. terrified. would never consider doing something like this except for the fact that it's senior year and I don't really have anything to lose also 3 of my close friends have bfs/are talking and like I feel left out.

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

lmao condal will be like 'noo why do people like d*emon he's not a good guy!!!' but he won't have the balls to make d*emon explicitly be the evil that he is in the book re: b&c lmao.

[flysafepapi]

nah, I'm done, I've had it with the writers for HOTD, I am at my wit's end.

The fucking AUDACITY it takes to downplay fucking BLOOD AND CHEESE?? To not show that Daemon's plan was *never* to target Aemond, it was always supposed to be Jaehaerys? To make it seem like it was a total accident that they just happened to stumble upon Helaena and the children alone? The fucking absolutely lukewarm threats that they made in comparison to "Hey, choose between your kids or we'll just rape and kill you all anyway"? Where was the screaming, the holding her son's headless body, absolutely inconsolable?

WHY, WHAT IS THE REASON?? It could not be more obvious that they're skewed towards Team Black. ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT SIDES, THEY ALL FUCKING SUCK.

It was supposed to show that both sides have done horrible shit, and now y'all are trying to be like "Whoops, guess they just misunderstood the instructions, that's not Daemon's fault"

Honestly get fucked.

[boundariesoverthrown]

oh man the tags under that gifset i made keep adding years to my lifespan