#fuck i love rambling about this actually

[sycamorality]

Oh wait here's a tough one: how do you think ancients used calendars? As in days, months, years (cycles)

oh boy here we go. i think they definently did, because we have dates mentioned in-game. and they are as follows;

1511.090, 1514.008, 1591.290, 1650.787, 1650.800, 1654.110, 1654.116 and 1681.662

1511.090 is where seventeen axes, fifteen spoked wheel was "voted Local Champion in the speaking tournament of 1511.090"

1514.008 was when "Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel nobly decided to ascend in the beginning of"

1591.290 is the bug in a maze broadcast between pebbles and suns

1650.787 is the sliverofocean broadcast

1650.800 was the broadcast chasing wind calls out an erratic pulse appearing on a nearby sliverist conversation

1654.110 was moon saying "Two cycles ago, my neighbor Five Pebbles drastically increased his water consumption to four times the normal amount"

1654.116 is moon sending a private broadcast to pebbles telling him to stop (which was when he got interrupted and presumably got the rot)

1681.662 was chasing wind asking suns if they had contact with pebbles recently, and saying UI sent an overseer and got pictures of pebbles rot that were made public in the local group

now, with THAT out of the way-

i would imagine cycles are much longer than they are in-game, considering in downpour they work on a day/night cycle in areas the rain doesn't reach. but i also think with the whole, xxxx.xxx, that the last three digits are a cycle- or possibly something more, considering it was mentioned "in the beginning of 1514.008" - which means that however long it is, it's long enough to say "in the beginning of", and they include the full date. but we also aren't told what they mean by "in the beginning of". i- think maybe the last three digits could either be a day or a week (or somewhere near there, using our own timescale for reference), though personally i'd say perhaps a month? 10-20 days? voids if i know! this is all speculation. though considering 1591.290 is after the ancients ascended, and 1514.008 is the latest time we have an ancient mentioned (and specifically ascending, too!), the first four digits are something like a year? perhaps more? which would make it 77 years since the ancients ascended during 1591.290 broadcast. but that brings it back to the last three digits. what the fuck are they. for the sake of my own headcanons (and sanity), i'd say the first three digits are a cycle (however long that is- i'd say somewhere around like 10-25 days, even if in-game a cycle goes off of a day/night cycle in areas above the rain. but it could also just be that the day/night cycle is extremely long in rain world. we really don't know). and the last four are akin to that of the rain world equivalent of a year, however long that is, which is not something i feel like getting in to, at least right now.

i think, personally, that the last three digits go all the way up to .999 until a number is added to the first four digits and the last three roll back to .000. that makes the most sense for me, considering we've seen as high as .800 and as low as .008. but it could also be they roll back at .800, or a simple .900. but, my own headcanon is that cycles go up to xxxx.999 before they add a number to the first four digits/rain world equivalent of a year.

tl;dr yes i think they used calenders and they are confusing as fuck.

[lazylittledragon]

i refuse to believe that boycotting is hard. my favourite thing in the world is ordering maccies after a late night at work/a concert/getting drunk. yes i do miss it sometimes. but the other night i ordered from a small place near my house instead and it was the most orgasmic burger i've ever had in my life. i very rarely say this but fucking suck it up people are DEAD

[babacontainsmultitudes]

RIP Will Campos the only person who was murdered this episode.

[boygirlctommy]

i love the bit from oct 17 2020 when tommy and quackity trapped wilbur in a cobblestone box to keep him from pressing the button... wilbur punching through the blocks with his bare hand to try to get to the button... tommy frantically replacing the block in front of him yelling for quackity to do something... the moment when tommy stops, blocks the exit, and tells wilbur to do it. press the button. but then theyd die with him. quackitys like "wait, wait-" but tommy holds his ground and wilbur. ohh wilbur. "why'd you have to make it so hard?"

[royaltea000]

Pose practice! ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

[starry-bi-sky]

DPXDC Idea: Mother of Monsters Dan(yal)

Specifically Fem!Dan because I made this in mind with my Fem Danyal Au bUT. The best part about Dan is that I get to play dress up with her, and Fem Dark Dany is gonna go by Layal (pronounced lae-el) because it means "the nights" and it sounds similar to Danyal, and I think she'd choose that name to mock Dany. ANYWAYS

Mother of Monsters Danyal. She may be evil but she's an Al Ghul at her core (even with vlad's soul merged with hers - however, considering that Layal looks and sounds like Dany, she considers that soul to be the more dominant one.) and loves animals. And she might be heartless, but she adores the monsters of the infinite realms.

Mother of Monsters Layal who hates everyone but utterly dotes and adores on every manner of beast she comes across. Stealing the eggs and infant young beasts of the Infinite Realms to raise as her own because she wanted them. Her own island full of monsters, a monstrous menagerie of her own. She steals most often from poachers or exotic pet keepers and other menageries -- the full grown beasties can keep their young.

And with every monster she raises, she can shapeshift their features onto herself, allowing her to change her shape from humanish to any matter of monster or hybrid creature. She calls herself their mother, and them her children. Her precious little babies, capable of incredible mass destruction and mayhem.

From little griffins the size of kittens, to stymphalian vulture chicks, and leviathan young hatching from eggs the size of her pinkie, to creatures native of the ghost zone that didn't even have names in the living realm. There really wasn't a limit to what or who she would take in and she didn't limit herself to any form of mythology. If they were beasts and they were unwanted, she wanted them. And as such, amassed her own mini army of "children" willing to listen to her any command.

Earth doesn't know what hit it when she attacks them.

There are many monstrous forms she could take on, the first one I've thought of is a combination of various serpentine/reptilian features. The body of a naga -- her lower half long and serpentine, her upper still human -- with spiked fins connecting from the bottom of her arms to her sides, ever seen Sinbad where Eris goes "you might have seen my likeness on the temple walls" and her arms do that fin thingy? Same concept. Her hands are webbed and taloned, perfect for slicing through the skin of the living, and her teeth are needle-sharp and shark like. Her hair can either be spiny and feathery-like like the spines of a lionfish, or frilled like a frilled-neck lizard. It's perfect for dealing and doting on her reptilian and amphibian-inclined darlings.

I'm more of a fan of aus where Dan is a sibling of Danny's rather than their kid, so Layal's redemption(..?? probation?) proceeds with her legally becoming Danyal's "twin" sister, who had been lost to the foster system before the Fentons adopted Dany, and was only recently reunited with her. The two of them look so alike that the lie is easy to take root and spread.

Layal is very indignant to the fact that she's now ten years in the past and has to restart her menagerie all over again. Do you know how much blood and sweat went into raising those children? How dare you separate them from their mummy. Although she'll admit she does miss their juvenile years, so she won't mind (too much) needing to raising them again. Dany is helping her retrieve all of them though, dammit.

long story short: epic the musical's "Scylla" has a CHOKEHOLD on me and this is the result of it

Unlike her Dan counterpart, Layal's voice is dancing and sirenic. It's purposely alluring and motherly, in order to lure people into a false sense of security until she feeds them to her "children." Echidna doesn't have shit on her. She almost seems friendly and reasonable, until you get too close and realize it was all an act and she drops it to metaphorically swallow you whole. She's like an anglerfish that way. She and Dany both sound like Scylla from Epic.

[thetorturedlovergirl]

if u start a sentence saying “omg I love 13” I’ll love u forever and you’ll be my bestie. That’s a no-brainer.

But if u keep going saying a “but” you really lost me. Like sh sh sh I don’t care about your buts your opinions about that doesn’t matter here.

[huntingrays]

i physically cannot write valgrace without making jason a huge simp for leo

[bandtrees]

they would get divorced in one universe just to find eachother in another one

alternatively titled: sometimes you're the level-headed token flesh-head impulse-control-and-polycule-member of a stubborn, eccentric, and hearty telephone-headed drug addict, and there's cruelty in the world you deem fit to suicidally fight, and that either goes about as well as you'd expect it to, or you learn about love and the value of your life and junk along the way

[hella1975]

nothing to see here! (in the taob doc) (it's hell in here) (wtf was i chatting these notes are UNSALVAGABLE) (i want a detailed plot outline of ch44 done by the end of the day) (we are so back)

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[buqbite]

Halo

[laurrelise]

they would be friends argue with the wall

[natsmagi]

i have been in this fandom for nearly 3 years and i only today realized that switchs color schemes are likely inspired by the day cycle thanks to the new album songs

MORNING: yellow eyes like the sun, red hair like the morning sky

DAY: yellow hair like the sun, blue eyes like the day sky

NIGHT: yellow eyes like the stars, blue hair like the night sky

[secretly-a-trekkie]

lol i think it is kinda funny how often we take our favorite overworked little guy (gender neutral ) and just go oh yeah he (gender neutral) hasn't slept in a month and his blood is now coffee and redbull but said guy (gender neutral) is just functioning mostly normally but with no filter

[secondbeatsongs]

when you're into the Big Ship™ in a Big Fandom™, you have the luxury of having an OTP - a real One True Pairing, where you can read about just them for ages, and you will never run out of fics, and everything is perfect and beautiful and nothing hurts

but when you go to a smaller fandom, you'd better pray to whatever god you worship that someone else in this room ships the same thing that you do, and that if they do, they're writing more than late-night crackfic, because you're on thin fucking ice!

and how small is your small fandom? is it less than 100 fics? maybe even...less than 20 fics?

welp, then it's time to make peace with that god and either open up a text document or learn how to ship everything, because it's swim or drown babey! and your ship is sinking fast

anyway all of this is to say that after hanging out in small fandoms and shipping less-common pairings for a while, going back into a Big Huge Fandom™ is wild because suddenly it's like...wait, why didn't I ship these people again? I don't remember. why was I only sticking to one ship in this fandom?? boring of me, honestly. these guys should make out.