#i also filter HEAVILY

[pigswithwings]

A Guide On Lessening Yourself

(Or, What To Do Before They Cut You Open)

This guide has been created to prepare you for your upcoming procedure. Please read carefully and follow all directions in order to have the safest experience.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

- Do not eat. (Required; at least 3 hours before the procedure starts. No meats, no vegetables, no grains, and especially no fruits. Any remaining food that is being digested will get in the way.)

- Do not drink. (Required; at least 2 hours before the procedure starts. No water, soda, juice, soup, milk, coffee, or energy drinks. Any remaining fluids will get in the way.)

- Do not bleed. (Required; at least 1 month before the procedure. No paper cuts, nosebleeds, injuries or other form of your own blood leaving your body. Restriction of the expression of your mortality is imperative.)

- Do not dream. (Strongly suggested; at least 1 month before the procedure starts. No daydreams, no hopes, no wishes, no lifelong goals, and no nightmares. Avoid losing yourself within any fantastical trappings - these are the vestiges of a mortal mind.)

TIPS:

BEFORE

- Make sure to confirm your procedure date. Whether by checking online, asking your doctor, or praying, it's of utmost importance that you remember the specific time and day of your event.

- Make certain that this procedure is for you.

Though the process has already been scheduled, you still have options if you're unsure. Asking God or previous patients are the most authentic ways to learn about this process. Consider the benefits and consequences of the procedure as a whole - this will undoubtedly affect your life, but will it be more negative rather than positive? Will you be able to be happy again? If you are willing to accept such possibilities, continue on. Should you choose to, however, you may still opt out before the scheduled date by telling your doctor and/or healthcare provider.

DURING

- Make sure to arrive early to your procedure. Timeliness is key.

- Be flexible with your interviewers. Many angels are unfamiliar with human languages and may instead choose to communicate directly inside your mind. This may cause discomfort as well as the feeling of being stripped into nothingness. Don't panic and remember that you deserve a chance at holiness, regardless of your humanity.

- Be polite. Though your angel interviewers may have already visited Earth before, human customs are often difficult to adjust to. If an interviewer makes a social faux pas (such as revealing their true form), brush it off and continue the conversation as best you can.

- Be prepared for any questions regarding your past attachments, relationships, possessions, etc. If you've prepared well, you'll be able to answer with full honesty that you have left all possible remnants of humanity behind - that means no mistakes, no regrets, and no emotions.

- Should you pass the interview (you will be told after they have finished), be ready to experience anywhere from a small to large amount of pain. This experience usually lasts around 20 seconds, but some say it feels like an eternity of blinding, searing light. The scale of your pain will be a direct result of how successful you were at stripping away your humanity; the agony that follows will be the angels burning it off of you.

- Wait through the pain.

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- Wait thought it.

- Wait through it.

- Wait

AFTER

- If you've successfully passed the interview, survived the procedure, and become an angel, congratulations! The following tips are only suggestions, but may help you in adjusting to your new existence.

- Avoid brightening your divine light too much at once. You'll quickly realize that your new eyes are far more adjusted to light than a human's, making the world appear dimmer than before.

- Avoid speaking out loud to others for the first few millenium, as this may cause harm if done incorrectly. Instead, practice "speaking" through the visual and audible expression of abstract concepts.

- Don't expect to visit Earth again. More often than not, angels avoid the human world (most say it's too painful to linger), so it's very unlikely that you'll return. Don't come back if you possibly can.

Finally, enjoy your new status as part of the divine. Not many people get to experience the feeling - you have made it! Please enjoy the rest of infinity.

[pasta-pardner]

spotify | john marston's revenge quest, set to music from 1960s spaghetti westerns.

Fun detail: the opening cutscene for Red Dead Revolver (2004) features an instrumental version of "His Name Is King". The lyrical version is oddly fitting for John, given that it's a song about seeking vengeance for a dead brother.

[yellowjackets-1996]

(do you love me like that?) you're a reckless driver (I'm a reckless driver) and one day it will kill us if I —

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

"Negativity" below the cut

You're telling me these are all different cats? Haha that's a funny jok- oh you're serious

[trans-leek-cookie]

the ending of i saw the tv glow fucked me up because in a meatphor sense she's going to spend the rest of her life in misery because she was too afraid to embrace her true self. her happy self. and in a literal sense she's LITERALLY being buried alive which is like top 100 fears of mine and the fact her inhaler stopped working which is like. the sign that she's losing oxygen kept me up at night. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAA

Ourgh yeah the burying alive is. Fucked up if real! But personally I've said before but I do see the ending as not Great but at least hopeful, I think even if she doesn't accept herself right away she's going to at least try to like, find people who can help her, because she is screaming for help at the end, even if no one responds. And that's much better than suffering in silence. At least, that's if you assume her life outside the Pink Opaque is real in some way, which tbh I do. I think even if she were to bury herself like Tara, it wouldn't perfectly put her in Isabel's body, and she wouldn't be young again. Idk I'll say that I think the world of ISTTVG is supernatural and sitting within unreality rather than full fantasy, and neither The Pink Opaque or "Real Life" is fully true. I think they blur together one way or another

[zer0expektation]

I love Sam so so much that is my little brother, but soo many of Sam fans either hating Dean or shipping wincest makes we want to peel off my own skin STOOOOPPP

[batcastlesociety]

GRAAAAH I HATE RICHTER BELMONT SO MUCH HE'S SUCH A STUPID FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT

anyway here's a richter belmont art and soma "somy" cruz i guess but mostly the blue belmont

i made him smell bad because it's canon. i said so.

[mishervellous]

@shamelesscreatorsnetwork

side characters | Sandy Milkovich (3/4)

[neallo]

trick or treat~!

HI hello! :D <3 have, um. this!!! untitled mello lives WIP :3

inbox trick-or-treating <3

[prince-liest]

So my AquaClear 50 (a "hang-on-back" aquarium filter rated for 20-50 gallon tanks) kicked the bucket at a very convenient 11pm last night after I gave it a cleaning upon returning from my 3 week holiday travels. Specifically, the impeller shaft decided that it didn't like being properly attached to the motor, actually, and in fact preferred to whirl around and make horrific grinding noises of the sort you typically hear before something mechanical outright explodes.

I, high off of three separate fairly-to-highly profitable zines deciding that it was time to pay out enough money in the last week of December that I actually have to file taxes in 2024 now, immediately took it as a sign to blow all of that money on a canister filter.

Behold, my new Fluval 207!

Pictured: My Fluval 207, along with several items that you'd think wouldn't be located on an aquarium tool table, including sewing thread, a toothbrush, and a hacksaw. My friends pooled together to get me that exorbitantly expensive ADA toolstand for my last birthday and I love it from the bottom of my heart.

I can't wait to move for residency and get an actual aquarium stand that will hide the filter and the CO2 tank underneath it. For now, I simply celebrate the quieter, less objectionable hum (you'll notice it I distinctly did not use the term "ungodly rattle") of the canister filter.

Unfortunately, the tubing and inlet/outlet pipes it comes with are ugly as sin, so that'll be another month of saving up for actual lily pipes. For now, however, the shrimp are enjoying the sponge I put over the inflow tract, which is nice, because it is exclusively there to stop them from killing themselves via the intake pipe. Not that I don't expect to find several baby shrimp in the canister itself whenever I clean it next month.

Pictured: Ugly as sin, and also the deceptively poorly-lit sponge, upon which sits one shrimp you can see and four that you cannot, including the male amano. Apparently they are camera-shy.

All in all, a nice improvement from the poor 10-gallon filter that was keeping everyone nice and alive overnight. That thing was still quieter, though.

[broke-on-books]

@ilovefredjones I had a vision

[mudstoneabyss]

Uh. Um. So.

[circus-clownn]

guys no shh shut, the demons got out because i had a sucky day yesterday (for some reason)

so I drew mime and you guys get to see

[taeminsupremacist]

listening to that new lol bg song featuring bbh and why are his vocals on a completely different layer than the other artists like his voice blends into the instrumental you can barely hear him lmao it sounds weird

[skynapple]

I literally have 2 modes