#except for the length

[silusvesuius]

baby👶 drawings. these are very dear to me rn.. 2nd pic is my Nelavis with @barvin0k's Varonur 🩵 last one is a baby bosmer and snow elf, hairiest of them all. although the bosmer was meant to be my girl Barletta too lols

[pygmypouter]

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

[egophiliac]

I'm trying to avoid getting spoiled so I haven't looked up what's happening in the Jp server's main story, but for my own sanity I need to ask; is the story at a point where we know whether Lilia will get better/survive his almost-empty magic reserves..? Was it a true death flag from the start or only a plot device for malleus' overblot....?

not yet! I do think they're going to get back to it eventually, but -- keeping it as low spoilers as possible -- there's been...let's just say a LOT going on in the meantime.

enjoy 7-6!!! :)

[cruelplatonic]

my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.

[xbomboi]

Growing Pains

as raven finally gets to be free from her shackles, apple silently chooses to shoulder all the pain that comes their way and bear the burdens of dealing with the horrors of the world so that raven can be happy. because raven has suffered so much and apple decides it’s only fair that she do all she can to prevent raven from any further suffering. it’s her way of atoning for all the hurt she caused raven, because apple knows raven has been and always will be a better person than her. to apple, if either of them deserves to smile, it’s raven.

[twistpixel]

Okay mean. Mean mean mean. I don’t get people who love Bruce AND can’t handle thinking about who he is/what he’s done. It’s a confusing an irritating stance. I can’t wrap my mind around it.

“He had his reasons and he’s my baby AND he’s traumatized AND he spends literally all his time and money literally saving the world.” fine. Understandable. I get it. Carry on thinking about his hairy tits

“He never did that.” Completely incomprehensible. Pisses me off on his behalf a little bit. What? You wouldn’t love Bruce if he DID do all that? Where’s your loyalty. Especially then they’re saying “Bruce doesn’t think [statement Bruce has made multiple times]” support his wrongs

[nauusicaa]

first step in my “wash, prepare and spin an entire fleece” project is done 🎉 i wanted to do just a little bit at first to see how it would turn out and wouldn’t you know it, i have yarn! i’m excited to get through the rest of it now that I’ve had a little practice but there’s just so much fleece lol

[braceletofteeth]

he's got the fire and he walks with it

[agentc0rn]

Interesting character parallels in designs...

I shared a story on insta about some patterns I noticed in the designs of characters I like, one of which is based on their hairstyles covering one of their eyes; this can be usually be seen as a visual hint to their secrets/hidden lore, which then my wonderful mutual @//dorianbrightmusic noted that:

"It's always a combination of them having seen too much and them having something to hide from the common view - skeletons in the closet. The characters always seem to be leaving something supernatural and once beloved - for Volo, the celestica clan + heritage; for AZ, his royal power; Arven, his connection to the professors. The covered eye (almost) always symbolizes a change of life direction".

I told my mutual that I never thought about the having seen too much part before in relation to their designs. Subsequently, I added that all of these three characters are wearing pretty big and heavy bags/backpacks, which implicates the heavy weight of the burden they bear hidden from plain view both in literal and figurative terms. Additionally, two are shown with one hand grasping the straps, suggests, espeically once you learn their story, they cling earnestly to something of significant value they had lost/seek to find, or alternatively, not being able to let go of the past that haunts them.

Now, putting a quick disclaimer, this is just our interpretations and not some confirmed, "objective" statements and such.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

s5 jon with long hair is inspired but have you considered: s5 jonah with long hair.

[bevsi]

coming out as a mistynat

[trainerethan]

Thinking red would naturally run hot and that + video game logic helped keep him from freezing when he lived on mt silver but now that he is in a regular temperature environment he hates hot days and summer in general. He was fighting for his life in alola. But during winter he's that random guy you see who's wearing a t shirt with no jacket in the middle of December in -45°C. Which green finds hilarious but also was extremely concerned the first few times he saw red rawdogging the freezing cold weather especially when he saw him on mt. silver like that. He makes red properly dress for winter if it's really cold but let's red do whatever he wants in summer.

[raiiny-bay]

considering... changing the boys' hairs... again.....

[runefactorynonsense]

Melotober - Day 18 - Vintage

The music was simply made for older instruments!

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

So I have a couple of ways that I am considering quantifying the performance of each competitor in this competition. My ultimate goal is to make a model out of publicly available information that fits the trend here that I can use to approximate a new competitor's performance and seed it accordingly.

I may have more ideas later, but here are the ones I have now:

Option 1

Purpose

This option is an approximation of the next option. It reasons that a competitor that gets into a later round is stronger, therefore a vote in a higher round is "worth" more.

Cons

My seeding was bad (as discussed previously). It is possible that a strong competitor was eliminated earlier in the competition than expected, due to erroneously going against an even stronger competitor. In this case, its "strength points" might be underrepresented.

Option 2

Purpose

This option seeks to add up every single vote a competitor got throughout the entire competition.

Cons

Again, a strong competitor could have been eliminated sooner than anticipated due to my poor seeding. If a competitor is eliminated, they obviously cannot acquire more votes and thus would be underrepresented by this metric.

Option 3

Purpose

This option seeks to purely measure the amount of votes a competitor got on its last round.

Cons

Competitions tend to get more engagement as they progress, which results, in this case, in more votes. Thus, potential issues for the previous two options still apply somewhat. Furthermore, a standout competitor that is eliminated prematurely might have a stand-out performance in its relevant round compared to other polls.

Option 4

Purpose

To get a ratio of votes cast for the competitor in their final round to all votes cast in that round.

Cons

All of previous option, except for standout competitors being underrepresented. Additionally, it has an additional flaw of possibly counting many people's votes multiple times. Many people vote on multiple polls in a round, so their votes on other polls would count against the competitor, even if they voted for it.

Option 5

Purpose

To find the ratio of votes cast for the competitor in total to total votes cast in a round the competitor was in.

Cons

Same as above. However, it may be canceled out somewhat by people voting for the competitor multiple times over several points.

Option 6

Purpose

To find the average amount of votes the competitor got over each round it was involved in

Cons

Honestly, this seems to be pretty good; I can't think of any major flaws. However, it would be time-consuming to record.

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: "i dont like the stormcloaks bc theyre racist" THEYRE ALL RACIST! EVERY FACTION!! they arent even SUBTLE about it!! sobbing crying weeping. the nords endured a cultural erasure from the imperials that spanned the course of actual centuries and it BACKFIRED like maybe if they didnt push their own gods onto the nords the civil war wouldnt have happened idk!! talos is NOT a part of the original nordic pantheon like if the empire didnt do a bit of imperialization they woulda been FINE. im sorry ths is lengthy but im going insane