#i may be projecting but FUCKING HELL

[cat-eyeball-nul]

Not me crying sad-upset-angry tears whenever i see an endeavor apologist, or him interacting with any of the kids in a positive light, i HATE that fictional man, he does not deserve their love or respect or forgiveness

[svtskneecaps]

dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,

when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO

and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!

bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances

i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished

so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.

[abyssal-glory]

vector portrait for digital imaging class of RGB!! hey go read The Property of Hate if you haven’t already btw it’s an amazing comic by @modmad that i’ve been hotglued to since my junior year of high school.

big thank you to mod for giving their permission/blessing to wrestle with this horrible tv bastard in adobe illustrator for the express purpose of shilling him and this comic to my unsuspecting class <3

(edit: god okay pls click for fullscreen. hogy shit)

[marypsue]

If you're going to reblog my (admittedly very ADHD) post about, to borrow someone else's excellent summation, bees in the brain, to say 'OP check your medications', have you considered:

not doing that

[caterjunes]

the fucking construction site next door has been jackhammering w/ those huge excavator-mounted jackhammers for up to 10 hours every day for the last 2 weeks (including saturdays) and it's literally physically harming me. i can feel my blood pressure rising & stress hormones flooding my body every single time they start. the impacts are traveling through the ground (naturally) as well as the air so 1) there's no hiding in the basement, 2) you can feel them even if you use earplugs/ear protectors, 3) they exist in multiple timbres/tones/frequencies, the onsets of which are slightly offset from each other. like a horrible echo.

they also shut off the water with no warning last week. they shut it off again yesterday too tho we had warning this time. i've been barely functioning, in a half-coherent haze any time the jackhammer is going, so i drove away to try to find a quieter place. i was going to go into town but i got like 15 min in that direction and realized i was ? having a migraine? ?delirious? so i turned around and went home and thankfully the hammering had stopped. but i still felt incoherent and dissociative so i took a nap.

and accidentally slept for six fucking hours. which did not help i gotta tell ya.

the weather has been so so nice and i would love to have the windows & doors open to get some fresh air but. there's just the overpowering BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG chkchkchkchkchkchkchk vvvRRRRRRRRRMMMWWRRMRMRMMMRMMVVVVVMMVMMMVMMMRRRRRVVVVVvvvvvvmmm

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vvvvvvVVVRVRRRMRMRMRMRMRRRRVVVVVVVRVRVRRRMMMVVVVVVVMMMMMMVVVvvvvvvv. BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG clatterclatterclatterclatter vvvrrrRRRMMMMVVVVRRRMMMM BANGBANGBANGBANG

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[10 minutes pass. you are lulled into a false sense of security]

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG

for ten. fucking. hours. every day. i can't bear this.

[gophergal]

Mortal Kombat: Fatality of the Heart

Coming... Never

[elecman108]

The Chosen: The Universes most dangerous living weapons who are known for their blood lust and the terror campaigns of the Elders... err... but this group of them were the ones who ran way and hid like cowards, but lived. Who's the biggest fool now, Elders? Ha!

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I know I already posted a line up similar to this earlier, but now that I have all the colours finished, I felt like putting them all together again.

I love my 20 war weapons (+1 guy who got processed later) (+1 honourary Chosen) who are unsettling to a lot of people. <3

Lore and added notes under the cut, per usual.

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First...

Alternate version of the line up with Seunna disguised as Ashley Foster, the Commander of an anti-Extra-Terrestrial-Invasion Military of humans. The irony of her, a former-Elder-now-Chosen (We'll get there) and, most importantly, an extra-terrestrial, is the leader of said Military, but don't worry about it. They assume she's a human unless told otherwise. She's just... very Psionic.

So... The Chosen. They are wildly different if you line them all up together, but there are some notes of consistency, no?

...In their facial scarring! It's obvious looking at the face of a Chosen as to which Elder made them. The above are Neylor, Mordenna, Reue, and Khomain. There are no alterations of the scarring within a singular "family" of Chosen. Although... of the above, I have them ordered in a specific way: Hunter and Blossom are not related and not family, neither are Fang and Void despite being made by the same Elder. On the other hand, Nazira and Zafar are twin siblings, and Sis and Warlock are blood related depite... not looking the part, really. What gives?

In the case of Nazira and Zafar, they were siblings prior to their processing. In the case of Sis and Warlock, they also were siblings... although in this case, it was by adoption, but the processing as Chosen made them blood-related. It's complicated.

There are three notable people who don't have facial scarring, though.

...Namely Nash, Seunna, and Theo! Each have unique situations that make them fit under the umbrella-race of Chosen, mind you.

Nash has... been through hell. Prior to joining the Aubosians and being revived by Ender, he was mentally processed to be an assassin, got killed once, revived as a zombie, given powers he couldn't control, died again, and then was revived by Ender. Problem was... Ender revived his ass on Aubosia, meaning they had no body and just stole is soul from halfway across the Universe. So how was that done? Ender used the gibs of a dead Flux Beast to make Nash. Technically, by biological logistics, Nash isn't Human anymore. But he is. But he... isn't? It's complicated. He has other characteristics of being a Chosen (notably being unstable and generally aggressive), so the Chosen decided as a group to adopt him into their umbrella-race and gave him not only Chosen gear, but a Chosen Title, being Shadow.

Seunna is a former Elder. The Elders made the Chosen. That already is a murky area, so... Essentially, several Elders processed Seunna into a Chosen, and Seunna's own strong psionics negated the other Elders' psionic scarring, so she escaped with no facial scars. If another of Seunna's Chosen lived on, they'd have scars from her psionics. Upon becoming a Chosen, Seunna no longer would be able to make a Chosen with facial scarring, though, but then again, Seunna only processed a grand total of three Chosen, all of which having died early on into the war, so she gets a pass by the other Chosen who hate the Elders vehemently.

Theo is actually genetically modified by the same process that made the Chosen formerly! But why doesn't he have scarring? For the same reason that Seunna couldn't make another Chosen with scarring, Theo was processed by another Chosen, that was then killed (I haven't really settled on which one, but they are a dead one). So Theo has psionics and (new) weird abilities, but because it was another Chosen and he is Aubosian, he kept his appearance without modifications. Aubosian blood, even if one is formerly from off-world like Theo is, tends to keep someone's form consistent as best as it can. That's how Aubosian cloning works.

But... Wait. Theo kept his appearance? And the Chosen are unsettling? Why?

Fang is an Avatar, like Akira, and Blossom and Charon are Zudjari, like Myuut. They are some of the most minor changes - Fang has eyes, which Avatars don't have, along with long ears. As for Blossom, she has no ears (which aren't really visible), and Charon is inexplicably blonde, which is not a hair colour that Zudjari have.

I mean if you line up the Chosen with members of the Advent branch, like Sol and Thossia, their outfits at least match. The Advent are a big fan of black and red when it comes to fashion. Also, given how wild some of the races are in the Triad Council, their off looks don't really... stand out. Unless you put them next to ones of their own (former) races.

Nazira and Zafar are Niternians, much like Cipher and Theo. Their skin tone is notably... washed out and green. Hyperion is a Floran, like Tawunya and Jasmine (I haven't coloured Jasmine yet though), but... His hair is strangely actual hair, and he has actual ears. His eyes are also a little odd.

At least the largest group of living Chosen, being all formerly Ethereals, look consistent with other Ethereals given how weird a lot of them look... Wait... Why is Cipher here again? Don't worry about him, he's... interesting. Although, speaking of odd... There are still odd notes - Warlock is huge, Dreamweaver has a mask over her entire face, Banshee's eyes are mostly purple, and... actually, Prophet looks just like a normal Ethereal until you realize she is also one who has no ears, and just holes in the sides of her head.

There are some VERY obvious weirdos, though.

...And since I don't have any others of their former race to pull up, here they are with notes. Handmaiden is a humanoid, but formerly a Chryssalid, which is... a six-limbed insectoid race. And not blue. She does have eyes like a Chryssalid would have, though.

Codex have full covering armour, much like Andromedons (see Void), but their skin is solid grey, which... clearly isn't what Hex has. She looks more like a human than a Codex, but she's a Codex!

Hylotl tend to have 3+ eyes, but Headliner just has... two. Also she has no fins, and despite the gills on her torso, she cannot breathe underwater. That's an ability she lost through her processing.

As for Avians, they're a humanoid bird species like Aarakokra, which means beaks. Angel... has no beak. Or nose, for that matter. And her green body isn't feathers, but skin. Her wings are feathers though.

So... Yeah. The Chosen are, essentially, a genetic slurry of stuff that the Elders processed them with, most having been formerly kidnapped people of various planets across the cosmos who have no memories of their time prior to being a Chosen.

But there are a planet's people that the Chosen don't look out of place with.

Aubosia. It has around 100 known sentient races on its surface, after all, with humans as a strong minority. And you probably didn't notice that I added Vic, who isn't even from Aubosia here, did you?

I mean, all are dual-citizens of Aubosia and the Triad Council because Theo is using Aubosia's status as a protected planet to ensure the safety of the remaining Chosen, so...

[coriander-candlesticks]

I realized recently (read: today as I'm writing this) that while I associate certain specific fiber arts with Athena (knitting, weaving, dying, and spinning), I associate crochet specifically with Apollo, though Athena's there too, of course. I think it's because it's more free-flowing: I can freehand something with crochet more easily than I can with knitting, both because I've known it longer and because there are fewer Things To Learn, unlike knitting which has a million different techniques that may seem interchangeable but actually aren't and that all affect the end product in a pretty big way (looking at you decreases & bind-offs). Because I can free-hand crochet more easily, and I grew with it the same way I did with drawing, they have similar vibes. Knitting and weaving, on the other hand, have steeper learning curves imo and are way more structured- and I associate more solid (dare I say rigid) structure with Athena. Embroidery and cross-stitch are kinda in their own floating category, maybe because I do them less and therefore have weaker associations with them over-all. I associate hand-sewing largely with Hestia, though again, Athena is always also there, because I associate it with mending, altering clothing, and making home items (ex the quilted pillowcase I've been mentally turning around in my head for the last few weeks).

Interestingly, I find printmaking specifically to be associated with both Athena and Apollo. It leans into the latter's domain, of course, the same way crochet does Athena's, but the structure you need in order to layer & print properly without hurting yourself, ruining equipment, or fucking up you edition seems reminiscent of Athena. Dyeing, especially making & using natural dyes, feels very much like an Athena thing despite it 1) feeling similar to painting or using inks and 2) being a trial & error process that's honestly pretty free-flowing if you approach it a certain way (especially if you do solar dyeing, which doesn't necessarily need some of the more meticulous processes you need to boil-dye something).

[kakyogay]

rant in tags...

[astranauticus]

genuinely so much of my motivation (literally my ORIGINAL motivation) for reading the orv novel is just that i have a lot of really interesting art ideas but i need to make sure they wont get siked by a later plot development before i draw them sdjkfshkdfjhksj

[kuoringankalmo]

Also on the note of me playing dragon age origins and FINALLY managing to play past red-fucking-cliffe, I'm really starting to dislike alistair

He's so fucking whiny and I just saw a post talking about how he just showed the whole weight of the world really??? On this rookie warden and then just keeps on whining about every harsh decision you have to make??? Because he "didn't want to do it"??? Goooooods what a little bitch!!!!

[moe-broey]

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED IN ALL OF THIS?????

Funky Option, blue ink, some color 🫡 I think I'll have the most fun that way also 👍

[kingspuppet]

It's been three months since I've properly written on here and I've finally done it!!! I'm actually so fucking proud of myself. ;3;

[sysig]

I thought I was done being feral about Tamagotchis but no, it was just a lull

[silverhand-j]

24 hour old unrefrigerated potato can’t be too terribly bad for the body, surely…