#from: kubes

[thetimecrystal]

christmas gift for @runway-houses-city-clouds

[lupescx]

in which Clara goes back to the Doctor.

[master-missysversion]

Something something replacements that are never quite the original

[scrambled-eggsed]

BAM

[punchelf]

His memories of Ala Mhigo had always been hazy; he'd barely seen his third summer when they fled, taking only what his mother could carry.

Growing up in Ul'dah, his mother would tell him stories of high red stone walls gleaming in the morning light. Of city squares echoing with drums and dancing. Of markets teaming with merchants from every corner of Gyr Abania, the old man who sold the best tunics, the coffee vendor who would read your fortune in the grounds for an extra coin, the grandmother of thirteen who sold kube and yaprakh from a tiny stall while lamenting how great her misfortune to have so few descendants.

Of the day they would return.

He had waited five and twenty years to lay his eyes on those walls, following the Bull of Ala Mhigo to war against his mother's wishes and all good sense... but the drums were silent, the dances forgotten, the vendors long gone...

Only echoes remained.

Roevember Day 2 - Roots

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee, Vaughn Hillyard, and Mosheh Gains at NBC News:

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.  Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the U.S. official and person with knowledge of the plan said. “They’re taking it very seriously,” the person with knowledge of the plan said. The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, is helping lead the effort, the sources said. It is being framed as a review of how the U.S. first got into the war in Afghanistan and how the U.S. ultimately withdrew.

[...] President-elect Donald Trump has condemned the withdrawal as a “humiliation” and “the most embarrassing day in the history of our country.”  It is not clear, though, what would legally justify “treason” charges since the military officers were following the orders of President Joe Biden to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

A 2022 independent review by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021. Trump first reached an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, roughly 13,000 troops, and release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison. The Biden administration then completed the withdrawal and badly overestimated the ability of Afghan government forces to fight the Taliban on their own. Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, has criticized the withdrawal, saying the U.S. lost the war and wasted billions of dollars. In his book “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth wrote, “The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired. The debacle in Afghanistan, of course, is the most glaring example.”

[...] The transition team is looking at the possibility of recalling several commanders to active duty for possible charges, the U.S. official said.  It’s not clear the Trump administration would pursue treason charges, and instead could focus on lesser charges that highlight the officer’s involvement. “They want to set an example,” said the person with knowledge of the plan.

NBC News is reporting that Donald Trump’s transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former US military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan to face a potential court martial.

This is a fascistic insult to common sense.

[kuberish]

Borrower kubes wanted a smoochie from Andre and she fuckin' gOT THE SMOOCH

[sayakube]

Where does you username come from?

I get the Saya for Sayaka but where does the kube come from?

The name was made paralleling my sibling's tumblr username @kyokube-blog (which has been inactive for years now, They still like Pmmm but they don't dedicate a blog to it anymore or go to tumblr anymore either.)

as for the name itself its a sorta vague reference to this blocky madoka figure merch

where you see a "sayakube"

[yeuc-c]

sorry for another question im hyperfixtated

1- would poob use xenogenders? they give off the vibe that they would

2- would poob get offended by the birthday floor and everyone destroying it

3- whats that silly cat jesters name on the krumbl kube?

4- what the hell happened to jimbo

5- would gregoriah and enphoso get along

6- why does spud not like to speak english?

i have the TISM!!!!

1. Maybe

2. No, but it would make poob very sad

3. Miché

4. The carpenters found jimbo

5. On a base level yes, but gregoriah wouldn't trust enphoso

6. Spud has major brain damage from the gnarpian attack and sometimes finds he'd prefer to just say 'spud' over and over again

[thekubekat]

I have learned that both miché and krumble kube have been removed from the game in this recent update (i believe this is true but ill have to recheck the shop) I dont plan on removing this blog (unless asked of course) but now im sad/ooc

[helmetkeeper]

#ColeminecanaryEvent, for @coleminecanary 's event🌈.

day 6: your favorite color / favorite character. i think my overall theme here is "being indecisive" because um... rainbow playlist :).

doing white, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and black!! songs go like "song" + "artist" :333

white

"MILLION DOLLAR BABY" + "Tommy Richman"

"Space Walk" + "Lemon Jelly"

"La Seine" (Excerpt from the soundtrack A Monster in Paris) + "Vanessa Paradis" and "-M-"

"Smile" + "Sammy Davis Jr."

pink

"BANANA SHAKE" (Sped up) + "HUS"

"Vending Machine of Love" + "The Stupendium"

"Écoute Chérie" + "Vendredi sur Mer"

"Kubes" + "machinegum"

red

"Blood - End Credits" + "My Chemical Romance"

"The Masochism Tango" + "Tom Lehrer"

"Denial" + "The Vaccines"

"Fell in Love with a Girl" + "The White Stripes"

orange

"Kangaroo Court" + "Capital Cities"

"Borderline" + "Tame Impala"

"Peaches" + "The Presidents Of The United States Of America"

"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (remastered 2005) + "Talking Heads"

yellow

"Banana Man" + "Tally Hall"

"Ríe y Llora" + "Celia Cruz"

"Here Comes The Sun" (remastered 2009) + "The Beatles"

"A Little Less Conversation" (JXL radio edit remix) + "Elvis Presley" and "Junkie XL"

green

"The Ballad Of The Green Berets" + "Sgt. Barry Sadler"

"Urban Struggle" + "The Vandals"

" 'Listen to Your Heart.' 'No.' " + "Cheekface"

"Generals And Majors" (remastered 2001) + "XTC"

blue

"Always Forever" + "Cults"

"If My Heart Was a House" + "Owl City"

"Army Dreamers" (remastered 2018) + "Kate Bush"

"Starman" (remastered 2002) + "David Bowie"

purple

"Cold Cold Cold" + "Cage The Elephant"

"Freaks" + "Surf Curse"

"Sunny Delights" + "I Monster"

"She's Not There" + "The Zombies"

black

"Shut Eye" + "Stealing Sheep"

"Kitchen Fork" + "Jack Conte"

"Ugo" + "The Dead Pirates"

"Black Out Days" (Future Islands remix) + "Phantogram" and "Future Islands"

dividers by @/unknown-till and @/eimogji.

[fubardish]

Welcome to the trash blog

Time to make a pinned post, here we go

Heya y'all I'm kubes, most of y'all might know me from my main blog @kuberish. I draw G/t vore with only humanoid male preds focus. There's a buncha safe vore but lately I've been also enjoying drawing a lot of fatal vore as well, so beware. I will tag things accordingly as good as I can.

Once again, this is vore blog, so if you're a minor please unfollow me this instant and DNI, go back to my SFW blog @kuberish. This is not a space for you. If I find out, you're a minor and you're following me, you'll be instantly blocked. It's self-explanatory lmao

Anyways, I'm usually very open to RP so DM me to ask if I'm still open for them. Usually always super open to asks as well :>

[floripire]

@wastheheart / continued from here

"That doesn't matter. You can tell me as much or as little as you want to. I'll listen. Pinky promise." Floribeth holds up her finger in order to prove it. "Besides, I've...got a similar disposition." Rambles upon rambles with this one, really.

And it's not like she's unfamiliar with having a project going on; in fact, Floribeth is still working on a passion project of her own: cataloguing every vampiric strain, ever. (So long as it doesn't catch the eyes of those in charge, that is.)

She gives Esme a warm smile before a trinket made of bamboo catches her eyes. "Wait, is that a Kubing? A jaw harp? Wow, I didn't know you guys had stuff like that!"

Her eyes twinkle. "I'm not musically inclined beyond humming as I work on my own things or singing in the shower but I do know a thing or two about it: did you know that it is traditionally considered an intimate instrument, used for communication between family or a loved one in close quarters? Back then, anyone could use it, really, but women used it most - for short distance courtship."

[omegaremix]

Cold Cave / Black Marble / Choir Boy @ Warsaw, N.Y.C.; June 14, 2018.

Hello, Warsaw. We meet again. It’s been seven months since I first visited the Polish powerhouse on Driggs Avenue in Greenpoint, one of my all-time favorite places to visit. That was when I attended Hospital Productions 20th Anniversary showcase and it became an unforgettable experience. This time, it’s a shorter affair featuring only three acts: Choir Boy, Black Marble, and headliner Cold Cave. The ritual is the same as last time and every time. Wait on the platform, take the train, hop on the subway line, and arrive in the neighborhood none more blacker where you stand against the venue’s wall. It was all clear out. Thursday’s warm air and blue skies was not symbolic of the night’s wicked-black climax. I called my sis- to tell her how euphoric I was feeling, experiencing these days and moments I normally don’t but should more often. For every time I waited entry at Warsaw, there was always someone from Stony Brook who I would randomly spot. Last time it was WUSB’s Cornflower zipping past on his bike. Now it’s Marcel, my queer friend from The Stony Brook Press whom I took a quick two seconds to be sure it was him. I was right. We hugged each other and then my anxiety shot up because I haven’t seen him since The Press’ 35th and the venue was ready to open its’ doors. He had to leave anyway for Ru Paul’s Drag Race, the diet of queer champions, but promised him we’d resume catching up down the road.

The line now entered Warsaw. Unlike Hospital’s instant get-go, we waited almost an hour for the opening act to go. Salt Lake City’s Choir Boy was first up, self-proclaimed Mormons (kidding or not) currently signed to Dais Records. They’re a spot-on bullseye of Eighties-aesthetic synthpop, new wave, and light goth-rock that was pleasing and lush. Never abrasive but gentle, breezy, and aurally sentimental. Adam Klopp’s vocals make the outfit’s namesake (he has sung in church choirs), hitting high notes just floating above the collective’s perfect dream world. Their synths, guitars, beats, and riffs and basslines fall right into my current Eighties kick, keeping the vibe alive. And note Kyle Hooper’s dangling earring when he’s right behind synths…

Black Marble was one of two reasons why I chose to be there. WUSB’s Nightmare Aquarium is responsible for making me a fan of theirs during a summer’s transition to Lindenhurst. Their output has been nothing but good to me. To this day, their sound is one I have yet to figure out and that’s a great thing. Chris Stewart / Black Marble got a great standing ovation revisiting his Brooklyn hometown as a new Los Angeles resident. It didn’t change the total mood or quality of his music if ever the slightest. Still a two-man two-guitar outfit without Ty Kube and a drum machine, Black Marble got right to it filling the vastness with said guitars and drum machines upfront as Stewart’s vocals receded far away and above into the open space. Even if there’s a cold, distant, low-fidelity quality in Black Marble, things somehow sound upbeat for its rays of sunshine. A clean perfect set all the way through.

Cold Cave finally take the stage. It can be said (and said again many times here) that they were one of the essential summer sparks igniting my personal revitalization of sorts during the post-economic crash. From then on, their songs continuously watermarked some of the better key moments in my life without fail, so it’s why I paid a visit to see them live as a thank-you. Wes Eisold made his entrance along with wife Amy Lee (guitars, synths), Ryan McMahon (drums), and Nils Blue (guitars) to open the set with songs from You & Me & Infinity. The New Order-inspired “Glory” really got the crowd going. Soon, New York City got a special treat only for themselves: an appearance by Genesis P-Orridge to perform “Comprehension”, her 2015 collaboration with Cold Cave and Black Rain. It’s her residency, so why not have Cold Cave make the most of their visit? Then the blinding “Heaven Was Full” and later on their marquee hit “Confetti”, which to me was the entire night.

Then, flashing solid colors went wild as Cold Cave went into “Rainbow Girls” mode, the only time the show went color. What did we win? A visit by author Max G. Morton of Eisold’s Heartworm Press, who came on-stage to deliver “Heavenly Metals” before Cold Cave’s ultimate closeout. Morton was decked in all black just like their set, standing tall and no doubt couldn’t be fucked with as he spewed his brand of cold despotic mean testimony. A few more songs and the night was history. Cold Cave delivered one of the most powerful performances I ever felt. McMahon’s drums hit hard, loud and clear through Eisold, Lee, and Blue’s blasting synths and guitars. Most of their setlist and songs I hoped they’d play was more I could ever ask for. “Confetti” was the start of a new era for me when all was almost lost. “Comprehension” has become one of my all-time favorite songs of this decade, if not, ever. “Glory” followed suit to become a new memorable winter favorite of mine. The string of favorables still keeps coming from them. With a new American Nightmare record out, it’s Eisold’s winning year. No bullshit, no moshing, no shoving; save for the guy standing next to me (and it had to be him) who was furiously stomping the venue floor to the point of near-collapse, and almost tearing the venue’s front rail off. Someone was a little into himself at the show, no?

My second visit to Warsaw in as many months was just like the first. Randomly encounters with friends from Stony Brook, amazing line-ups in an amazing venue, and another day in Greenpoint where the fever pitch comes from being in a great place in a great time and having the right ties with specific people. It’s not every day I experience it, but when I do, I feel like with all the motherfuckers and fishnet-wearing witches around me in Boy Harsher, Joy Division, Cat Power, and D.S.-13 shirts, I hit the jackpot.

[dejwrld]

big three:

one piece worst character designs but best story/character development n world building

bleach kinda under developed, the characters are fleshed out in a diff way like best designs n powers but thats bc of kubo illness i suppose they dont get utilised in a good way like look at the arrancars 😭😭 just tossed to the side. also ichigo just nerfing everybody is annoying like ur telling me the soul society who are these ancient powerful beings get their ass whooped by a 15 year old who has some of rukia’s power? aurkay

naruto, ik u never really were into it but i like kishimoto’s illustrations honestly, i feel like the characters are interesting too but same issue as bleach, a lot of ppl just sorta got tossed to the side n a large focus on sasuke n naruto. and kishimoto defo the worst misogynist on this list. while oda can d!e at least his female characters have depth, naruto female characters r just cheerleaders for cawk minus tsunade but imma defend sakura from naruto fan boys every time

i have heard people say the same but i am a bleach bias and do note that kube sickness possibly got in the way of him building something great so he always will be my fav within the big three i fear 😭. i dropped one piece as soon as i found out ace got killed, then the body anatomy of the female characters (and don’t get me started on usopp) give me an ick, and then oda capping for that one mangaka that had child porn….realize one piece is not my cup of tea and that is okay 😭. it’s apart of the big three for a reason and you can’t take that title away from the big three no matter your opinions on it. i haven’t gotten into naruto though, don’t think it’s my cup of tea either tbh. but once again, its apart of the big three for a reason

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 17, 2023

Oversampled and undersolved: Depressive rumination from an active inference perspective. Berg, M., Feldmann, M., Kirchner, L., & Kube, T. (2022). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104873.

Orbitofrontal cortex populations are differentially recruited to support actions. Cazares, C., Schreiner, D. C., Valencia, M. L., & Gremel, C. M. (2022). Current Biology, 32(21), 4675-4687.e5.

Causality modulates perception of apparent motion stimuli. Deeb, A.-R., Silva, A. E., & Liu, Z. (2022). Vision Research, 201, 108120.

Energy-efficient network activity from disparate circuit parameters. Deistler, M., Macke, J. H., & Gonçalves, P. J. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2207632119.

A direct test of competitive versus cooperative episodic–procedural network dynamics in human memory. Freedberg, M. V, Reeves, J. A., Fioriti, C. M., Murillo, J., Voss, J. L., & Wassermann, E. M. (2022). Cerebral Cortex, 32(21), 4715–4732.

Perceived speed at low luminance: Lights out for the Bayesian observer? Freeman, T. C. A., & Powell, G. (2022). Vision Research, 201, 108124.

Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging. Gobbo, F., Mitchell-Heggs, R., Tse, D., Al Omrani, M., Spooner, P. A., Schultz, S. R., & Morris, R. G. M. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2212152119.

Cross-modal generalization of value-based attentional priority. Grégoire, L., Mrkonja, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(8), 2423–2431.

Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers. Guo, D., Wang, Y., Liao, Y., Li, J., Zhang, X., Gao, Z., … He, J. (2022). Child Development, 93(6), 1793–1803.

Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex. Hansen, J. Y., Shafiei, G., Markello, R. D., Smart, K., Cox, S. M. L., Nørgaard, M., … Misic, B. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1569–1581.

Information‐seeking when information doesn’t matter. Hilchey, M. D., Rondina, R., & Soman, D. (2022). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 35(5), e2280.

Dual-polarity voltage imaging of the concurrent dynamics of multiple neuron types. Kannan, M., Vasan, G., Haziza, S., Huang, C., Chrapkiewicz, R., Luo, J., … Pieribone, V. A. (2022). Science, 378(6619).

Recursive sequence generation in crows. Liao, D. A., Brecht, K. F., Johnston, M., & Nieder, A. (2022). Science Advances, 8(44).

Flexible neural control of motor units. Marshall, N. J., Glaser, J. I., Trautmann, E. M., Amematsro, E. A., Perkins, S. M., Shadlen, M. N., … Churchland, M. M. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1492–1504.

Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity. McHugh, S. B., Lopes-dos-Santos, V., Gava, G. P., Hartwich, K., Tam, S. K. E., Bannerman, D. M., & Dupret, D. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1481–1491.

Rapid encoding of task regularities in the human hippocampus guides sensorimotor timing. Polti, I., Nau, M., Kaplan, R., van Wassenhove, V., & Doeller, C. F. (2022). eLife, 11, e79027.

Task-specific employment of sensory signals underlies rapid task switching. Sasaki, R., Kumano, H., Mitani, A., Suda, Y., & Uka, T. (2022). Cerebral Cortex, 32(21), 4657–4670.

Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain. Villar, M. E., Pavão-Delgado, M., Amigo, M., Jacob, P. F., Merabet, N., Pinot, A., … Perisse, E. (2022). Current Biology, 32(21), 4576-4592.e5.

Behavioural and dopaminergic signatures of resilience. Willmore, L., Cameron, C., Yang, J., Witten, I. B., & Falkner, A. L. (2022). Nature, 611(7934), 124–132.

How much I moved: Robust biases in self-rotation perception. Zanchi, S., Cuturi, L. F., Sandini, G., & Gori, M. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(8), 2670–2683.