#fun fact: i have no xitter

[iturbide]

WE WIN OUR BOY IS IN HEROES AFTER 20000 YEARS

We've been waiting so long

But he's finally here and I'm so happy

[anon-402]

All 'Dia de Los Muertos' references in today's QSMP event

I’ve seen it in Xitter but not yet in Tumblr, so I’m gonna go and translate each Egg’s book with the references to the deities that are mention within.

(English is not my first language. Sorry for any typo or grammar mistake).

For Tilin:

Tilin, my girl, I’m sorry you couldn’t enjoy the life it was expected for you, but don’t be afraid you will be with mom at Chichihualcuauhco[1] where I will take care of you. I won’t let anything hurt my helpless girl until you have the opportunity to be reborn again, you didn’t deserve to join the Gods in the underworld. - Tezcatlipoca[2]

For Bobby:

My little Bobby, you have proven to own dignity and courage to fight for what is right, As a result of this, I’ve invited you to my kingdom  Tonatiuhichan[3], where at my side, you and other warriors will sing about their deeds and will dance until midnight, so you can enjoy forever the sunset that you adore so much. - Tonaituh[4]

For Juana:

Juana, it’s an honor for me and my wife Mictecachihuatl[5] to have you join us in the Mictlan[6]. Even though your dead was an accident, you may enjoy the journey that is our kingdom. You treated nature with respect in your life, so our dogs are excited to meet you at last. You will join us in the infinity of the universe forever. - Mictlantecuhtli [7]

For Trump:

Oh Trump, I’m sorry that my currents took you to this destiny, but to compensate I will invite you to Tlalocan[8], where you may join us in our celebration without end, and you may eat all the corn, amaranth, pumpkin, tomato and chile you want. In my kingdom, I promise you there’s no suffering and you will never be alone. - Tlaloc [9]

Now for all the little references:

[1] Chichihualcuauhco:

Afterlife in which children who died young or in childbirth are sent and fed from the “wet-nurse tree” (You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a tree in Tilin’s altar). Souls here wait for their next opportunity to be reborn.

[2] Tezcatlipoca:

He’s one of the four creator gods of the universe. I’m not an expert on Aztec mythology and I wasn’t really into Tilin’s lore, so I’m kinda uncertain as to why he was the one to write to them or how are they connected.

[3] Tonatiuhichan:

One of the afterlife paradises, where the soul of warries who died in battle go. It was believed that warriors could go back to their homes (land of the living) as hummingbirds. (Fun fact: Woman who died at childbirth would be given the same rank as the warriors who died in battle and would be sent to a similar place called Cihuatlampa!)  

[4] Tonatiuh:

God of the sun (who runs Tonatiuhichan), who most believed was the creator of the Flor of Cempasúchil.

[5] Mictecachihuatl:

Lady of the Dead, Mictlantecuhtli’s consort. She guards the bones of the dead. (Fun Fact: In Oaxaca, is known as Matlacihua, and is said to punish womanizing and drunken men who walk late at night. Kinda funny considering Mariana and Slime’s interactions lmao.)

[6] Mictlan:

The underworld. Most people who die travel to Mictlan. To travel to the kingdom, you have to go through nine levels, which kinda needs dogs to carry the dead across the river. Same reason as to why Juana is sent dogs. (Fun fact: Depending in the color of the dog, they would act different. Yellow ones would just carry the soul, white ones would refuse cause they just washed themselves, and black dogs would refuse cause they just swum the river.)

[7] Mictlantecuhtli:

Lord of the Dead, king of Mictlan. There’s nothing much to say about him; he just simply tried to maintain order in the kingdom and was kinda of an asshole to other gods. There’s a whole myth about other Gods wanting to repopulate Earth, and him going ‘Nuh uh’ until Quetzalcóatl gets tired of him and steals the human bones from Mictlan lol.

[8] Tlalocan:

The afterlife of the Nectar. Better known as the water paradise, where those who died through drowning (or anything associated with rain for that matter) go. I read somewhere that there’s a theory of Trump dying because he drown in his own tears, so that’s why he was invited by Tlaloc.

[9] Tlaloc:

The God of rain, associated as the giver of life. The flower Tagetes Lucida are kind of like the Cempasúchil, and are his symbol.

[hg-aneh]

Hi! I absolutely love all of your art and I’ve been fallowing you for awhile! There’s been some rumors that you ship Muriel x crowley?? Which I guess is an odd paring but nothing terrible wrong with, I was just curious if you do ship them.

Thank you for all your wonderful art <3

okay, i want to preface this by saying that I've already been harassed over this to the point of being called a lowkey pedophile and having every little move of mine scrutinized and misconstrued to sickening extents (this harassment spilled over to my partner too, and it was horrible)

so all anyone would do by doing this again would be repeating history, among other things that have to do with fucking up my already frail mental state

now.

onto the meat

yes, I ship it

no, I do not see Muriel as a child, kid, teenager, or anything of the sort and I find it personally distasteful to think of doing so because infantilizing autistic traits rubs me the wrong way (p e r s o n a l l y)

you can do it if you want to, I have worse things to worry about than a random person on the internet thinking something of a fictional character, just don't try to push your headcanon onto me just because you perceive it that way or because it's a popular dynamic that you find fun

adding onto this, i want to add that i will never and i mean fucking NEVER post anything related to that ship outside of the very specific private Xitter account i created for it

(and my personal facebook, on a friends only setting)

any Muriel & Crowley content outside of that account is all platonic and bla bla you get the gist. I can separate things, what a talent.

Now, I'm being overly paranoid and explaining myself to exhaustion over this for a very good reason and it's because last time someone found out about it ((yes we're going full circle to the beginning of this little bible)) they treated it as some sort of GOTCHA moment about me being a pedo ((and if you didn't know this already: I fucking despise children with my whole being, I'd rather be forcefed alligator shit for my whole life than be with one of those creatures for a single day))

It got to the point of that person making extremely hurtful videos about me and their little friend group comprised of goober eating toddlers joining in on the "Hater" train or whatever the hell that new cultural trend is called, as well

It was hell, that whole experience fucked me up BAD and i feel silly for saying this but it was genuinely traumatic! So- I apologize if I'm sounding confrontational here, anon, but like, this is the type of thing you have to do to keep yourself safe now, it's gone to that point and I'm in hysterics now because what the fuck

Lastly, I'd like to say this one other thing

Muriel is played by an adult actress, they are canonically the same age as Aziraphale and Crowley and are also an eldritch creature just like them

The fact that they're nice and bubbly and happen to have autistic traits doesn't suddenly make them a fetus. I have friends with the same personality type as them and I feel like it'd be dumb to treat them like zygotes knowing they're adults with body hair and debt

Again, if you see them as one, I'm literally no one to judge, I'm 1.49, you're better off taking judgement from a stupid lone penguin in the saharan desert.

But don't fuck with others for thinking otherwise, it's not a moral issue to disagree with a headcanon, please. 🥲

[liliadrawingstuff]

Please take this Post with satire. I am just ascendingly screaming over the Faba Bio Leak. I waited for this moment to happen and actually gave it up but damn. I WASNT READY FOR THIS AHAHAHA

SMALL DISCLAIMER: I want to clarify. I see those leaked things not as canon. Just as his base idea that they changed through development. But. I am just going to act like as If this would be canon in this post.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BLACK OR BLONDE HAIR. BLACK HAIR FABA WAS AN OPTION?

ey he is 165 cm... That's. THATS LITERALLY THE EXACT HEIGHT I THOUGHT OF HIM AS LMAOOOOOOO. WHATTTTTTT look at my pinned post for proof 🫵🏻 SMALL LITTLE GUYYYY AAAGHHH.

53 years old pretty much fits. I headcanoned him as mid 40's to begin 50's so hell yeah!! Old man!!

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But. One question is.

WHO IS YOUR WIFE AND CHILD. 🫵🏻 WHO IS YOUR WIFE AND CHILD. WHY ARE YOU MARRIED. (I would love to meet them. Maybe.) WHOOOOOOO!!!!! THOOOOO!! WHO WOULD MARRY YOU???? (ahum...yea) I have to headcanon that his concept wife is either just as toxic as him or a poor woman he treats badly. Well I prefer the first hc in that case.

SPEAKING OF TREATING WOMEN BADLY!! THIS DANG ASS MISOGYNIST. PAHAHA. I love how they clarify "opposite Sex" but not same sex? Is this guy a misogynistic closeted gay?? He can have fights with the 1 or 2 misandrist Lesbians on Xitter and get obliterated.

I love that they went with arrested and fired for his ending. He can join Team Plasma in the Anime Jail. (So that's how he met Colress!! okno) but I think it's very cute that in the end they all gave him a second chance in most medias. (Besides the Manga...I guess ahum ahum)

Germanic descent? Still vibe with him as French/Kalosian more but him shouting angrily in German would be SOMETHING. I can see that now so much.... Maybe he is French German after all who knows. Kinda fits. (also my pride of being German just highered itself by 0.0001 %). German region when where we meet Fabas Wife and traumatized Child with awful parents.

The fact he is described super kind to Lusamine is actually very fun. Just sliming himself up the career ladder. I have urges to slap him real bad because all of this //affec

"But thanks to the Aether Foundation he gets great powerful pokemon" IF THAT WOULD BE CANON THEY ONLY GAVE HIM A HYPNO WHAT DO YOU MEAN. And lend him more pokemon afterwards so he can battle you as champion? Would be funny. But yeah. I stand with the HC that all of his mons all have a special reason to be in his team and why he is with them.

But the "his hobby is sexual harassment" cought me so off guard. I can't help but laugh about it. It sounds so bad. The bad wording probably kills me. FABA PLEASE. FOR THINKING USE YOUR BRAIN!! NOT SMTH ELSE. YOU DICKHEAD.

Also it was planned that he gets a watch.... Guy had to show off his rich kid watch surely to impress others.

God damn I want to hit him so hard //affec

I wanna draw a bit related to the leaks as a joke and then come back to answer messages and look what horrors yall think of this ajehdbka

Xenley is preparing her fists because she will be allowed to beat him up.

Lilac is gonna get the first aid and tells him everything will be fine and that this is just a nightmare.

[dragonmarquise]

I've been working on the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Wiki, and it's now in a completed state! (Kinda? For now at least)

I've been meaning to make this post for a while, but kept putting it off out of nervousness. ^^; Posted this to the game's Reddit already, so a lot of this is copy-pasted from that.

I've been working a lot on the BRC Wiki over on Fandom for a bunch of months now, since it was left pretty barren when I first found it. A lot of missing articles for stuff that should have its own page, plus a lot of unfinished articles. Now it has a lot more info for just about everything for the game!

Though, if you'd prefer to view the Fandom wiki without any Fandom nonsense, you can try to BreezeWiki version! Basically just a mirror that simplifies things, you can do this with any Fandom wiki by replacing the "fandom.com" part of the URL with "breezewiki.com". Kinda works like Nitter.net did for Xitter, if anyone remembers that.

So back on the main topic, the Fandom wiki is now at a point where I can call it complete! Well for the most part. The only thing that really still needs work imo is the Outfits page. It has images of most of the characters in their different outfits, front and back, but there's still a bunch of missing images needed for the rest.

@fauxridium helped create the images used on that particular page, and I wanted to format the rest in a similar way. I have all the characters and outfits, but the problem is just the time it would take for me to put everything together, nevermind just taking good screenshots. If anyone wants to volunteer to handle those images, feel free! Otherwise I'll probably get to it in a few months from now. I'm a bit sick of working on this wiki for so long, hopefully people understand, lol

Anyways, feel free to check out the wiki! I tried to make sure as much info as possible is covered, including sources to tweets and stuff for info that isn't mentioned in the game itself. Please let me know if anything's inaccurate or off, there's only some much fact-checking I can do by myself, so any help no matter how small is appreciated! :>

(Also, if you're wondering about any weird/quirky image captions on some of the pages... wiki work can be very tedious sometimes, to say the least. Then I try to have a little fun so I don't go completely mad from it, lmao. Hopefully nobody minds it too much.)

[nicegaai]

okay you found me (well the account that wanted to be found anyways 😭).

love the responses about the sibling dynamics (although i'm under the impression that the sámi people hate finland [for good reason]). somewhereville usa is so real [although if you're wondering, you got the vibe of most of the midwest down. much of the suburbs are very anywhereville].

i read your rereading þr post and one thing i want to add is that i hc that emil was wearing a hot topic logo t shirt (although apparently they don't sell those???). what's another small hc you have about the five?

kksdjlk SORRY!! the activity page on this acct is slow, i notice when i get new followers :P

the sapmi/sámi irl probably do, but historically speaking, theyre probably closest-ly related to the finnish out of the nordics...maybe. but she could just as well have been adopted. ummm of all the concerning implications þetta has that i should probably make a long disclaimer about , the sapmi oc thing is the last thing i was thinking ab but maybe ill tack that on whenever i put it together. im thinking last chapter... "im sorry to every nordic person and especially the icelanders in real life for implying you(r natl reps) do incest. i have a fetish and im doing a bit. please stop blocking me on ao3 i didnt even know u could do that"

thank you for the midwestie endorsement!!! it means a lot fr! :D im basing a lot off of TV and somewhat my own experience in the american suburbs. btw this lot live one town over from you so watch out next time u see a blond guy

i could make up headcanons for them all day long ... or i guess in this AU everything i say is canon actually. whoa . thats a lot of power

everyone has a nicotine addiction lowkey (except emil? so far) im talking vapes (timo) im talking zyns (mads) and normal ciggies too (sig) (ber is all of the above)

sig in high school was angry and confused and kind of a freak. i think he wore gir hoodies. he would have loved myspace era jeffery star and being an awful diva but he was doomed to something else entirely by association with the magic (the gathering) club

mads' peak golden retriever bf era was high school. he played sports, he was popular, he started a band with his friends... he just didnt have a plan afterwards and burnt out (temporarily?). SAD

ber was graduating hs ab the time sig and mads were starting. i think he was in band, brass section, socially awkward and a kissless virgin. he thinks back on hs and gets embarrassed about the way he was, but minus the virginity he hasnt changed one bit.

timo is an enigma to me. i have trouble pinning him down. i think he could have been one of those theater kid furries but hes also outgoing and generally likeable by the school population (showers regularly). just kind of a weirdo!

WAIT . THE REST OF THIS LIST IS GOIGN TO BE GOOD ONES

(not incl timo) their shared grandparents were first cousins, and it was less weird back then. :) no, they do not know this. when the day comes he finds out, mads will go into a downwards spiral of "we should have done this thing proper, me and sig could have been married"

timo's full time job is doing furry commissions on xitter and vrchat. im talking some real degen illustrations. he is soon going to start an autobiographical webcomic about furries doing incest (names changed to protect identity) and people online will call him a LARPer and the story unrealistic and it will piss him off so much

fun fact the rest of the town is minorly fleshed out, i used to talk more ab other things too... alfred and gilbert do crossfit with mathias and they do gay shit in the locker rooms and are about 1 flash of insight away from admitting they have a 3p fuckbuddy thing going on but nah nah theyre bros they hang out its fun its lighthearted its male bonding. working out together just does something for the libido you know how it is

gilbert is dating erzsebet (there was a whole sideplot with them and roderich but i forgor it) and alfred is a Sigma Male Who Is Too Cool To Date A Woman but he actually has a weird thing with matthew going on behind closed doors

most of the heta characters are out there in the town and a lot of them went to high school together. or something. england was one of the teachers... aughhhh its been so long since i was talking ab the au the details r murky fml

[papirouge]

the recent 2edgy4me rounds of "um ackshually it's okay to commit infanticide/abandon an infant in a dumpster if the mother doesn't want it, what if she was scared" is like the most base lizard-brain take I've seen in a while, what's worse is it's not even the first time people have unironically put forward post-birth abortion (aka infanticide) as a practice we should view neutrally (eugh). or there are those who think it's okay for a woman to continue to do drugs even if she knows she's pregnant and thus willingly harming her developing child. and if you aren't okay with either of the above you're just a misogynist!!! stop trying to control women!!! etc. etc.

like radblr sometimes imitates male sociopathy too closely lmao another one I love is people claiming they're pro-choice but also get mad when a woman didn't abort when "she should have." umm sweatie it's her body her choice is it not? if she wanted to keep her baby what business is it of yours?? this seems like an almost exclusively American attitude for some reason, I'm thinking because the average American is so politicized and fanatical. literally cannot have a normal conversation about any of this without being called a million names and told to kill yourself, radfems on this website are more civil to trans identified males than they are to pro-life women, even liberal or Democrat or atheist pro-lifers, I respect some radfem tumblr users but most of them are just so lacking in self-awareness it's kind of pitiful

It all boils down to radfemistan biggest ideological inconsistency that every choice women make should be critically instigated (shaving, plastic surgery, make up, etc) UNTIL it comes to abortion. Either women have to question every of their choices, or they don't.

Oh, and I might get a lot a shit for that but IDC : the growing trend of women to defend abusive women under the dArvO thing is crazy and they all come off as abusive psycho themselves using coping textbook psychology gotcha to excuse their destructive personality. IDC what radfem say patting themselves in the back for not making fun of Amber Heard (congratulations for being a... decent human being??) they were the first to harass, and bullying pro Depp WOMEN (calling them "Deppford wives"). They even rejoiced when it's been revealed a girl who was pro Depp killed herself (don't know if it was related to her bullying).... Everytime I see a dumb radfem/feminist quote that "Chateau Bunny" xitter girl I get major red flag because that batshit crazy chick was full on invested into those bullying campaigns targeting (young) girls whose only crime was defending Johnny Depp. Bunch of deranged no life witches....

I'm absolutely not here for their dumb historical revisionism of them acting like they were the only one to stand for "women" when they were in the socials streets harassing women for thought crime. They were there to defend a hot blonde millionaire woman from defamation allegations they somehow projected into - that's all.

You're absolutely right about feminist oddly having a bigger commitment harassing fellow women than men. There were plentiful pro Depp moids, as far as a I know.

I understand there's no "perfect victim" and that you can violently react to violence inflicted to you firsthand, but what I don't understand is that they act like this shit was a prerogative of women. I'll never forget how those feminists were like "there's no perfect victim" to defend Amber Heard .....while dragging all the nasty shit Johnny Depp did decades ago to prove he couldn't possibly be a victim himself. Or because he was richer or older... Wasn't Heard richer/more famous than her ex she was infamously arrested for physical abuse? That her stans argue the openly LGBT female officer that came on the scene was lesbophobic?? And then they use the fact the ex gf withdrawing her justice complain is evidence nothing actually happened, because WE ALL KNOW DV victims NEVER backtrack when they take action against their abuser? 💀

If genders were reversed, we all know those women wouldn't go to all those hoops to defend Heard shady past, but we all know why they do that...

That's what I dislike the most with abortionist/feminist : they're so duplicitous and hypocrite you can't never rely on them to be remotely consistant on the broad scale. I'm absolutely not surprised a bunch of them turned pro white supremacists when it came to kill Palestian women bc it was an opportunity to kill "rapists Muslims".

They have the same destructive mindset with their anti tra obsession, now rubbing shoulders with know racists rightoids known to not give a shit about women's rights unless it comes to shit on (alleged) trans people. It was first Kiwifarm and now xitter bluecheckmarks muskophants they screenshot as gender"expert". We are in the trenches.

[greenscreen-dress]

Listen I know Toby said the release is still a ways away... but on the off-chance we get Deltarune Ch3&4 before the end of this year, the universe has the chance to deal me an extreme fandom combo-punch hype overload in the following way:

Mid-October is already big videogame brainrot hours thanks to Minecraft Live usually happening around this time, with the entire internet buzzing with the reveal of the next major update.

Depending on when that happens I'll only have three weeks absolute max to fixate on the block game, bc 29th of October I'm going to Miku Expo Paris a.k.a massive spike of vocalsynth hype there of course... especially if I get my shiet together enough to cosplay.

Deltarune Ch1 came out on Halloween, and while I doubt Toby & Fangamer would pull the same trick twice I personally would be very tickled if they did a "It's Deltarune Ch1's 6th anniversary so we're playing Undertale for Some Reason" stream to segue into the release of new chapters or something. heehoo

And then there's the fact that between Miku Expo and Halloween, there's this fun little thing called My Birthday.

So I'm picturing myself the day after Miku Expo, waking up with a bit of a dehydration headache and a sore throat from singing and cheering so hard probably... Pick up my phone to reply to bday wishes texts, idly scrolling Xitter or something... Only to see that the DELTARUNE account is once again tweeting some obscure nonsense in Gaster-esque all caps and just promptly passing out from the hypeoverload. :D

[cielhunternorwood]

So, this is going to be a strange bit of tangent-rant, what with all the Xitter-ing about Stellar Blade, sexualization, and whatnot. I promise, though, it's more random chatter than my own opinion on the matter (which is, more or less, idgaf). Reader beware.

For the unaware, Stellar Ass is an upcoming Korean video game starring a female main character modeled after a, well, model from Korea. However, the likeness isn't one-to-one, as there's some anime-ification going on with her face and hair, so there are definite liberties being taken with the character.

Naturally, though, people are less focused on her face and more focused on her butt and thighs, because her design is very much going into Hornyville in terms of accentuation, over-curvature, her swoocy movements, and her attire, or lack thereof.

Granted her butt and thighs are nowhere near as fantastic as Raiden from Metal Gear, but enough people have been chattering over her to trigger others who find this kind of design distasteful for many reasons. The thing is, it's a valid criticism to throw at a game, relying on some form of eye candy to draw people in.

It happens ALL THE TIME because that's what character design in games is about: making a character attractive and memorable to draw in the player and keep them hooked. It's not always sexy, though. Sometimes it's cute, sometimes it's cool, and sometimes it's just familiar to the player.

Having said that, it is also often a problem to design characters with sex appeal in mind, and it almost always involves female characters due to an inherent double standard that has yet to fade due to the many cultures that handle the issue in different ways.

Not that you can't make a sexy main character and still make them enjoyable to some extent as a character, but impressions will always be on visuals first, especially when knowing the persona of a character requires a time investment. In that way, a lot of the reactions based on appearance go both ways for equally valid reasons.

Similar complaints were made about Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, which are all equally valid, and could be made about the old Tomb Raiders if not for the rather cartoony cover arts (also that they toned down her boobs the more realistic they became in visual style). It's a means of hooking that is often used with a game that may not hit it off on gameplay alone.

The trouble is that the sexualized character can cause mixed signals, making an otherwise unremarkable game seem amazing because the sexy girl (or, rarely, guy) in the middle of the screen is triggering a positive reaction- brain chemicals, yada yada- from that alone. Hence why someone like me, who is asexual, generally is unaffected and has a more grounded opinion of such games.

I found Tomb Raider to be interesting to play, even if platforming in the remake was really buggy, forcing me to cut it short. Bayonetta felt too much like DMC 4 for me to actually buy the game, plus the magic hair idea and the heel-revolvers felt too dumb to me. Nier Automata was the first game to actually make my eyes hurt due to its washed out, sepia'd locations, and I found the game really boring even with its supposed "great story": it was just treading the old ground of other games that came before it without adding its own unique flair.

I can't help looking at Stellar Blade and thinking it'll be more of the same: people confused by their own excites into thinking a game is better than it is, much in the way the adrenaline rush of playing certain stupidly-difficult games can make you think a certain game is fun when it's actually badly designed and forcing you to win against unfair odds.

There's a lot of focus on how a game makes us feel when judging it, rather than judging it based solely on its status as a game. The fact that too many people can't separate their like or dislike of a game from its actual quality leads many to praise an otherwise bad game or condemn an otherwise good game, all over what the game makes them 'feel'.

To reel it back in, liking a game because it has a sexy character you want to watch and wank to, while I guess being fine, doesn't mean someone is wrong to criticize that design for being as such and further complain about 'oversexualization'. Especially when that sexiness is always the focal point of promotional media, cutscenes, animations, etcetera.

It's a very normal reaction to something that is still perceived as in the realm of sexism, sometimes because it comes from a culture that doesn't have the same values or progression as our own in that field. It's still a talking point that inevitably causes flared tempers, mainly because the people liking these sexy main characters feel attacked when the point is brought up.

Unfortunately, the defensive reflex really reveals more about them as a person than anything else, being unable to admit that 'Yes, this character is oversexualized, and I'm okay with that,' because the connotations to go with that are bad. It very easily lends to some extremist name-calling and labeling when the discussion should be focused on whether this is an okay thing in general or if it continues to promote an objectification ideal.

The problem then becomes the 'but it's a fictional character,' argument, which is a weak argument at its core due to the fact that separating fiction from reality relies on an individual knowing themselves in and out (which is impossible, mind you). However, a lot of what we like in fiction and onward is a translation of what we want subconsciously or would gravitate towards in reality because that's how the brain circuits are wired.

Again, this is focusing purely on the visual representation. For the pure reason that most consumers will always go for the instant gratification effect rather than hold off for the longer-lasting good effect. Part of why gacha games are so popular and addicting, but that's a subject for another time.

I guess, in the end, this tangent-rant is mostly a complaint that the problem isn't the character themselves but our unwillingness to have an actual discussion on how this can be a problem, how it may perpetuate a problem, and how it should be allowed to receive these criticisms, even if some of the complaints are plastered with buzz words or using it as basis for a really bad agenda.

We'll all love good-looking designs, be they sexy, cool, cute, or just reminiscent of someone we know, but we should always be willing to criticize them. Same for games. Your feelings for something and the quality of it are two entirely different things.

If you can't separate the two from each other, then either you need to learn how you can do that or simply admit your own bias and never render judgement.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to get out of my system. Again, my own opinion of Stellar Blade's MC is "I don't care," because I've seen enough of that kind of thing to just be numb to it. Also it's not as bad as a lot of character designs in Artery Gear and Nikke, or the stupid Nero Saber Venus look in Extella.

[deep-space-netwerk]

That's a really good question!

First of all, I definitely relate. I have a really hard time keeping up with everything myself, and it's super unsatisfying when you only get dry, dense articles from googling.

I'm extremely fortunate that I work directly with people who were actually involved with these missions, and they're all too excited to share. I first heard about Curiosity's morse code wheels from someone who actually worked on Curiosity, and fact checked it by googling "Curiosity morse code wheels" afterwards. But its super frustrating that I had to already know about it to effectively search for it!

Genuinely, what I'd recommend for causal passive absorption of fun space stuff is to follow NASA, NASA engineers, and your favorite missions on social media. Curiosity has its own Xitter account, and it still updates frequently with fun little stories from the rover's point of view!

I've also had luck watching interviews with the scientists and engineers who were part of these projects! Like documentaries or even just short spotlights. People LOVE to talk about the stuff they work on, and are usually more comfortable sharing silly stories in a video format than in a published article. Like, did you know NASA holds panels at comic con? Because I didn't, but you can find a lot of them on youtube!

Anyway part of what I want to do with this blog is share the fun details that I've picked up. If there's something you want to hear more about let me know :)

Ask and you shall receive.

So do y'all know about Curiosity's wheels? They have these cool hole patterns!

The holes are ostensibly for tracking wheel slippage. The pattern is stamped in the Martian sand, and by taking a picture of the tracks and measuring the distance between the repeating hole marks, you can tell how much the wheels are slipping.

But the pattern isn't arbitrary! Curiosity (along with many many other NASA missions) was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory - or "JPL". While JPL is entirely federally funded and almost exclusively works on NASA missions, it's technically operated by Caltech, not NASA. When JPL was assembling Curiosity, they added some "JPL" decals to it along with the cool "Curiosity" label on the arm.

Well, NASA HQ found out and got mad. "You can't put those JPL stickers all over our rover!" they said, and made JPL scrape them all off.

JPL reluctantly complied, but definitely got the last laugh. No decals allowed? Well fine - the holes in Curiosity's wheels say "JPL" in Morse code. So every few feet, the name of the real creator of the rover is stamped into the surface of Mars!