#feeling kinda sad today

[keytogala716]

Random world-building things I have in Gala (the world I use for my writing):

Day 5:

In gala, when you finally kick the bucket, your afterlife can be a few different things. Most of the time, you will be collected by Pine (goddex of the afterlife and order) and taken to The After, which is a pretty general afterlife that will keep your soul confortable untill it is de solved or repurposed.

You can run from Pine, either becoming a wandering spirit or soon becoming reincarnated

Or- you get shot out into a dimensional inbetween called The Side, and you have to spend the rest of your afterlife avoiding monsters and overall having a Not Great time.

[rawliverandcigarettes]

Thinking about Mass Effect, as you do, and how I'm kind of sad that the way it's been engraved in pop culture has more to do with the way internet reacted to it at the time than what the actual game is about. Yes sure, it's about romance (and not that much all things considered) and it's pulpy (but not solely because of hot lady aliens), but it's also intricate worldbuilding that touches on a lot of sharp ideas, and a complicated tug-of-war between a genuine and vulnerable belief in reconciliation and community VS post 9-11 US military propaganda and steadfast belief in heroic exceptionalism, and the melancholic yet energizing mood, and the daring narrative systems, and so so much more than the 'We'll Bang OKs" and the "There's No Shepard Without Vakarian" and the whole ME3 ending situation

It's all there, but I'm sad the impact of the series is often reduced to (what I think is) the least interesting parts of its sum

[notesbynor]

Not to me. Not if it's you.

[medicalunprofessional]

neighborhood watch

[suntails]

⚔️🦈

[pink-key]

Splatter splatter feat Tobs

[tj-crochets]

*I have a small horse plushie I bought a while ago, it's not one I made

[starrodent]

working on something BIG and SAD because I enjoy feeling pain

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

some people in this fandom are going to be really disappointed when winds of winter comes out.

you guys. you cannot treat the POV characters as stepping stones for other characters/other POV characters.

the POV characters must have a fitting end according to their character arcs, themes, foreshadowing, etc.

to clarify, the POV characters chapters are about THEM. their storylines are about THEIR journey. you cannot use their hundreds of pages of character development as a brick to build the castle your fav will live in.

this is especially true for the key 5 and for the other younger POV characters. their endings have everything to do with them, they do not revolve around your fav.

us readers out-of-universe reasons for wanting x or y characters deaths does not matter. what actually matters is if you can support your theories with textual evidence from the chapters of the POV character that you want dead.

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Another wip! It's kind of almost done :)

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Italian Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[sleepinglionhearts]

I'm not in eclipse path of totality, but my area of Texas is going to get around 99.2% coverage (or so staff at our state park say...)

It's cloudy as all hell, but it did make for a pretty cool picture.

[usagimen]

    I think a lot of the reason I sorta stepped back from this place was recognizing you can do everything 'right' as a female OC but it just does not feel like enough. You can have constant pretty graphics, pretty prose, try to extend outwards but after awhile you do feel like banging your head on a wall. It's jarring to see whenever I hop onto my Satoru or multimuse, there is a complete interest primarily cause they're male dominated. It's demotivating while also making me think I've sunk in four years with Sayuri, the people who are interested in her I cherish so deeply, but continuously having to assert she is my main muse also gets me exhausted. What's ironic is the traits of her being petty, cold, or nasty are often liked on male characters which makes no sense ???? The community talks about being different or treating female OCs / muses with respect yet can't seem to act upon it.

[marblerose-rue]

got asked to draw two of my old wc rp ocs :-) left is cicadahop, right is scallopstar

[sunsetcorvid]

ai has become such a blurred concept that anytime people hear something uses ai nowadays they immediately distrust it and think it's inherently evil and gonna steal all their data

there's a difference between some rich fuckers trying to train ai without your consent and some discord bot that just finds patterns in speech and says garbled funny shit back at you

[saint-ambrosef]

i dont know what to feel about today