#future guesses and such

[great-and-small]

Apparently the local university’s undergraduate entomology course sends students to catch insect specimens at the same place I like to go birdwatching, which explains why I saw three enormous frat looking dudes with tiny bug nets and overheard one emphatically say “bro BRO I told you we already have enough lepidopterans”

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[grey-viridian]

Leonardo

I finished this comic about a month ago but couldn't bring myself to post it. It started as a simple illustration and then I just kept adding more and more and at some point I had to stop myself and cut the story short. I'm still not entirely satisfied with the result but... well. I like it. That's enough.

[somerandomdudelmao]

You know what. I loved this page so much I colored it haha

[braisedhoney]

okay but can you imagine—

[cestacruz]

Heyy, time for the troubles with the other two twins

[Part 2]

[Stanford and kid Stanley/Original]

Anyway! Good times with Stanley and Stanford, and sorry stan, but Ford has a little something to do

[lurking-loaf]

It's essential to teach them color theory when they're young so they understand how to mix colors. How else will you get art that's good enough for the fridge?

Day 6 of DCA Promptober - hues plus bonus animation of Sun imitating the Mac's wait cursor aka the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom

[theweeklyblogger]

The ✨F u t u r e✨

The future is weird, and I'm not sure what it holds, however, I'm excited to see what it holds in store. Who knows, maybe the world will still be burning, or maybe we got our act together and it's still burning, but not as bad, or maybe we finally have those flying cars you always see in futuristic movies. Whatever the future holds, I'm sure it will be an interesting journey to get there. Technology is advancing rapidly, and I'm sure we'll see some incredible changes in the years to come. I'm looking forward to it! Or if we want to be more realistic, it turns out that there is a potential that I might be moving. Moving to Ohio. I'm not sure if this is the right decision but I'm trying to stay positive. It is a new beginning and I'm not quite looking forward to the new experiences that await me. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. If I end up moving to Ohio, I can make jokes about the 2000s-2010s emo music romanticizing Ohio.

Maybe in the future, I won't end up having to move to Ohio, and maybe I'll still be in the Stateline area. Who knows, not me, obviously. Maybe I will end up in a place where I can really find myself and find my place in the world. I'm still not sure what the future holds, but I'm hoping for the best. All I know is that I'm ready to take on almost anything. I would prefer staying in the Stateline area though, but that's not up to me. Maybe the future will have bullet trains in the US, or maybe we'll go back to wearing concealer as lipstick. The future both near and far is something to wonder about, but personally, I like to live in the here and now, because if I am always wondering about the future I'll miss out on great times that are happening now. I think everyone should keep that in mind as well. We can all learn to appreciate the moments we have now, and we can make plans for the future without getting so wrapped up in it that we miss out on what's happening in the present. Taking time to enjoy the small things in life is something you might regret not doing in the future. Either way, the future is always happening, whether it be 2 seconds from now to 5decades. Make the most of it by wondering what it holds in store while also appreciating the present. In the future, you'll look back and laugh at the fact that you used to stress about the future so much. The future is always a mystery, so don't let it ruin your present.

[ruuibos]

this is how cell saga went down right

[tea-the-not-understanding]

don't know if any of y'all noticed but the way that pure vanilla and cacao already lose their minds when they encounter is like, I really hope the Dev continue this just

Pure vanilla - losing his mind and sanity. Cacao - Fallen into despair watching everybody who he swore to protect just got thanos snapped into dust Holly - I have a prediction that she stand hopeless to do anything and watching Pitaya become slave ( like, eternal sugar is sloth, so I guess she using creatures and monsters to do her fighting and bidding.) Golden cheese - yeah I can see her witnesses her trauma or witness everything she own and care are nothing but dust again. Or Burning spice could just destroy everything she love infront of her, could be both White lily - seeing cookies murdered one by one. (Somehow had an idea where she kept on blaming Silent salt for the murders, until in the end, she slowly learned that the one who been killing cookies and bringing war and despair is her and only herself. Not silent salt at all. He just there to watch her broken down and destroying herself without him having to do anything at all.) Or see elder fairy die again infront of her and disappointed. Possibilities on her and lots of it

[cuttyflammm]

more scrappy hoshinas (¬ ¬ )

[mobius-m-mobius]

Oh, Crowley. Nothing lasts forever.

[pi3rat]

if you're trans, you have to live.

if you accomplish something else, then good.

if you accomplish nothing else, then good.

but you have to live.

🤍

[faelapis]

sometimes i worry that *i'm* wrong and SU is bad/rushed/blah blah. then i remember whites fragile need to be perfect and ego defense of thinking she's fixing things. i remember how its perfectly mirrored by stevens need to fix others. how its both beautifully symbolic in CYM an made more explicit and heart-rending in future.

yeah that shit rules. white being reformed is great. its the ultimate rebuttal to the ideology that only good/useful/perfect people deserve to live- which is exactly the standard white held herself and everyone else to. it mirrors stevens arc of selfless heroism. it mirrors the toxic, insecure selflessness thats plagued everyone from pearl to jasper to rose about what it means to "deserve" to live it ties into "love like you" of how learning self-love is intertwined with loving others. it ties into how steven can't let go of his hero role until he's confronted by *literally* having his own mind in white's body, hating the idea of being like her yet ironically reacting exactly how she would - "this is someone bad for society, they should be shattered, this is what's best for everyone." trying to hurt her only hurting him. trying to help her helping all of gemkind - from the corrupted gems to dismantling a system that was held up by those exact ideals.

yeah no SU is fantastic. i'm so sad that its reputation is "oh well it wasn't that good, but it had some lgbt+ rep :)" which is just about the most condescending crap ever. i would gladly flip it. i think most cartoons that have come after SU haven't been that interesting, they've just been mostly generic stories with some lgbt+ rep.

[somerandomdudelmao]

Part 6!

Everything is falling apart.

First of all, I'm sorry. Second - we're only one part away from the beginning of comfort and I'm slowly going crazy here haha

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[whataduck]

when you see the snow in bitter aerie and it feels so silent...and then you realize that this is a view into how this world will be in the future. Obscured and laid to rest in the snow.

and here's the imo kinda ugly first version because. i am bad at background