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that last anon that was like imagine the boys taking the omega out to paintball or laser tag is soooo funnyyyyyy imagine the look on the employees’ faces when literal SAS soldiers make the quickest work ever of their courses 😭 also something about Hunting the omega again in there …. running away while they’re all hunting her down oh hell yeah. (((side note i loved the earlier parts of the story where price was training the others by using the omega lmfaooo))
Lmao they'd be so surprised 😂 just these normal looking dudes absolutely destroying the course and they're just like..."do...do we need to make this harder?" 😂
Ugh they'd get so out of control. Good thing the reader runs fast 😂 she's gonna need that.
I do want to continue that bit, I'm just out of ideas on how to utilize the reader in their training 😅 that is not my forte I'm afraid
#if anyone has any ideas lmk#i'm very not thinking rn lmao#the brain is mush i've gotten like maybe 30 hours of sleep in the last week#thank god my meds got picked up today#maybe i can finally get some rest#answered
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tolkien (a studied linguist) and me (has taken their fair share of linguistic classes) staring at each other after the narrator casually drops that the hobbits just 'forgot' their languages and simply adopted the common speech as if that is a normal thing that happens out of the blue and isn't connected to at best cultural assimilation and at worst colonialism, imperialism, and oppression
#personal#lotr newsletter#lotr lb#love that you always find new stuff to think about with these books#like this is very easy to read over and simply accept bc it's such a small paragraph and also it's not presented as something super bad?#like i'm not saying the dunedain violently oppressed the hobbits and forced them to learn a new language or smth#but girl the implications...#like there certainly had to have been some kind of hierarchy so that the common speech had more prestige than whatever the hobbits spoke#bc they were multiple languages they were speaking!#like idk what it means rn but it's a fascinating choice to me that they forgot their languages except for a few words.#lmao maybe i'm also thinking too radically about this maybe it's not that deep. but it certainly caught me off guard reading hahaha#*closes the tabs on language death i had opened*
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I haven't stopped thinking about zolu after wano bc isn't it crazy that zoro, as enma's new wielder, has declared he might as well become the king of hell and it turns out he's a descendant of the shimotsuki/frost moon family line, making him a descendant of shimotsuki ryuma the god of the blade whom he resembles physically, whose sword zoro earned after defeating his zombie in thriller bark and who's considered a hero of wano that's only rivaled now by joy boy - luffy's sun god nika the warrior of liberation and joy. that both zoro's presence and luffy's df awakening as nika/joy boy in wano were considered the "work of fate". how zoro was luffy's first crewmate, one he actively sought after learning just his name and fearsome reputation. the whole pirate king and greatest swordsman business. their parallels to roger and ray. how they both have the will of kings/conquerors. I feel insane
#zolu#tp#I am extremely fascinated by this turn of events ngl I'm not sure if something's being cooked here#(in the manga I mean) but the food sure smells good#like what the hell is this#also I just caught up with the manga to the most recent chapter so thinking abt these two is the balm I need rn#after all those ahem. very recent dark turns. I love OP so much it's so good#I also think it's funny that zoro's birth month lowkey spoiled his family origins lmao#considering what shimotsuki most commonly means apparently#and I mentioned it in the long wano post I made but#the mix of fate and choice wrt zolu is just. really good
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Dogstock are typical of what are often deemed the ‘evil’ races in many other fantasy works. They were created by some higher force to be slaves, they are carnivorous by nature, they resemble animals other than human in dentition and build. They growl and bite and walk behind.
The Uhasr (a dogstock culture) are descendants of such slave-infantry that was abandoned when the empire that used them to capture the steppes decided the land wasn’t so profitable after all, and more pressing matters drew their attention elsewhere. Like tools left spent on the ground, the unneeded, excess dogstock were left to survive on their own in Hochkiskuph. The native peoples, of course, did not welcome them any more, or see them any less as oppressors when the hand released the lead. To the Hochkiskuph peoples, the Uhasr are a predatory ghost, an echo that consumes them even in absentia. To the Uhasr, one human is much like another, differing in number and equipment, but never in essence. Uhasr are a species of wild animal with a human face. Humans are prey on two legs. Humans smoke and poison uncovered dens on principle, Uhasr abduct and consume men and women and children all the same.
A common trend I have noticed in media which aims to humanize monsters, is that it often relies on passivity. Humanity is contingent upon kindness. The monster that is A Person only so long as they are a harmless thing at heart, something which can be understood and befriended. Their violence is reluctant, their hearts noble. Grace is a concession to the dominated. Only the toothless beast, declawed and pinioned and caged, is one which has earned its personhood. The ontological enemy supersedes the ontological man.
#haven't posted them much (all wips) but been thinking about the sphinxish people in my setting. same world as thrones#different part of the continent like 2 whole seas away#this is inspired by a shitty comic a friend is reading and also thinking some of the writing in the long way to a small angry planet re#hostile aliens really really sucked.#i want to talk abt this more so im posting it if you have thoughts i would like to hear themmmmm#i'm very cynical about this kind of stuff lmao#dogstock#im also reading tollkien rn so im thinking about ORCS#i dont actually like the lotr trilogy all that much but not even bc i think the writing is bad i just think its kinda boring. sorry.#thats not a very interesting reason to not like something i dont even think its not good im just not super entertained. rip#like not saying there is no issue with it at all writing wise there is very much to say abt how it is utterly and uncritically#white good black bad fair elves and dark orcs and shit like that#but i've liked things more that have bigger issues. hi pern. maybe i just like shlock! idk!#rambling. im keyed up hi#the gibberish in spookygibberish
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Been thinking a lot lately about how Akasha calls Louis "the most predatory of all the immortals" because he kills "without regard for age or sex or will to live." but then later in TVA, Armand describes him as this:
"Louis, an indiscriminate killer, because he cannot satisfy his thirst without killing, though he is too weak to risk the death of the victim in his arms, and because he has no pride or vanity which would lead him to a hierarchy of intended victims, and therefore takes those who cross his path, regardless of age, physical endowments, or blessings bestowed by nature or fate."
Like on the surface Akasha seems totally right, Louis doesn't hunt the evildoer, he preys on innocent victims despite his devotion to humanity and that is what makes him dangerous because he's a hypocrite.
But I'm so intrigued by Armand's re-framing because on the surface sure it makes sense that Louis hunts indiscriminately since he doesn't have the same tools to weed out the evildoers. Only there's another factor on top of that— Louis also doesn't have the pride that it takes to pick and choose victims!!!!! Like, it absolutely takes some level of pride and righteousness (and dare I say narcissism) to kill based on your personal, subjective perception of evil. It also takes work to hunt down a drug lord or a gang leader. Like Armand says, their victims exist in a hierarchical system and to get to the top of the food chain, it takes intention and pre-meditation and a level of conviction Louis just doesn't have.
And honestly I think looking at it from that perspective highlights such an important part of who Louis is as a character because vampirism, for Louis, has never been about power. He just has no interest in living above humans. That's not to say he's completely free of vanity or narcissism (don't get me started there lol) but like I do think Louis' lack of discernment when picking victims ultimately stems from a rejection of playing God and a rejection of self-importance, rather than some feral predatory instinct.
#this isn't very articulate rn but i'm having Big Brain thoughts about it okay#love it when we get those nuggest in canon of characters referencing the same thing but in totally different framing#i've always loved that everyone thinks of Louis as a freak because he doesn't hunt the same as they do LMAO#vampire meta
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one of my favorite things in teen titans is robin wearing his own mask underneath the red x mask
#i mean he obviously has an identical mask underneath his own mask lets not pretend#theres a scene where cyborg pulls him back hy the cape or something and they have like#that effect where the mask kind of stays floating in the air for a second and i pausit and he just had those#like round whites with a black outline#which is how they draw him comically sometimes#i literally don't remember if there's a moment where the mask is even mentioned in tt sorry#don't tell me I'm rewatching i barely remember anything so this is very fun#i di remember my favorite bits tho#so the red x and the apprentice episodes but that's all i think lmao#also i used to be so focused on robin when i was watching this as a kid#but rn im also appreciating the other characters as well though i hate all the#romance teasing this show has uh I don't see it i like robin and star as friends so much tho#i REALLY like robin and cyborg here tho they're awesome here for some reason hehehehee :]
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ermmm im gonna put this under a cut maybe
we love drawing scary stuff on occasion :3
@dustyfandomtrashbin gave me an evil idea
#nug art :)#art#rain world#looks to the moon#rw lttm#rainworld#rw looks to the moon#nug oc: feathers atop fresh snow#rw oc#cw body horror#ish? its a reflection#would horror count#iiiimma put it just in case#horror#anyways I'm normal about this#also#id put oc x canon in this but uh. fafs is very much Not in love with moon rn#anyways i just liked the expression of this and wanted to show it off LMAO THIS IS JUST A DUMB DOODLE#rot au fafs#yeah ill make that a tag on its own#i think ill post more rot au fafs later
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i should really learn how to tattoo myself at home huh...
#genius idea#and also a HORRIBLE idea#but i just..#like i don't want to pay a hundred euros just for a four letter tattoo yk?#lmao#before you tell me that's overpriced it's not abt that he just has a mmmmmmmm fuck idk what it's called#like his prices start at hundred#which i think is fair#he just wants to do bigger pieces#and i'm not judging that at all#get that bag#but i just don't have the money to get anything bigger rn#i might try out this other tattoo artist hmm#his style is like veeery very very much what i like#the other guy does more traditional stuff but he's done all of my more “tribal” pieces and he's just like the niiicest guy ever#and i feel very comfortable with him#and reaching out to new tattoo artists is a bit scary lmao#HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I JUST WANT TATTOOOOSSSSS why is everything so hard omfg#mayor of loserville
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give this post a like if you don't mind me responding to memes via mobile! (aka no separate post, no icons, minimal formatting)
#( OUT OF SOULS. )#( lmao i'm very optimistic )#( i'm falling asleep in the chair how am i thinking abt writing rn-- )
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I did a Deaf Chell Portal playthrough (no sound and no subtitles) and it totally works.
My two questions were 1) would it be plausible for Chell to survive to the end of the game? And 2) would Chell have any idea that GLaDOS even existed at all?
And the answers are 1) Yes and 2) No.
Basically, Portal is a very good game with very well designed puzzles. At no point do you need any verbal instruction from GLaDOS. All the information you need to progress is given by the actual design of the level itself. For instance, the companion cube level. I was initially worried that this level would rely very heavily on GLaDOS's dialogue. I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be obvious to Chell that she had to destroy the cube to move on and that it probably would take her some time to stumble upon the correct course of action while trying whatever she could. But no! The fact that you have to incinerate the companion cube is made very obvious. There's literally a couple of those hazard warnings on the ground in front of the incinerator that tell you to throw the cube in.
IMO it would be pretty apparent to Chell what she needed to do and how to move through the facility. She may not understand WHY but she would know what to do. Even the end of the formal testing part where she is about to be incinerated. I don't know if Chell would know if this part was purposeful or accidental but regardless, she would be able to escape. The long and short of it is at any point in the game Chell's only option is to move forward and there's only ever one way forward.
There is basically no indication of GLaDOS's existence if Chell is Deaf. Here are the clues you get:
-no other humans in the facility
-once or twice the door to a level doesn't open until she's done monologuing at you (Chell of course has no idea she's being monologued at)
-one of the scribbles in Rattmann's hideout says "She's watching you" (Chell would not be too surprised by this. The cameras and observation rooms are obvious)
That's it. That's all you get up until you open the door to GLaDOS's chamber.
And even then! Even then the conclusion she's going to draw won't be more complex than "this computer must be the thing keeping the facility running and it is currently trying to kill me".
Now the GLaDOS fight itself is probably the biggest stretch of plausibility. At first, before the neurotoxin, GLaDOS does nothing that indicates she wants to hurt you. A piece of her falls off. It's pretty obvious that you can pick it up and put it in the incinerator (again, level design) but why? Just to do something? This is the weakest moment in the whole theory. AFTER that though, the continued destruction of GLaDOS makes more sense. Chell sees the countdown timer. She sees the neurotoxin even if she doesn't know what it is and she probably feels it too. There is now one of those eyeball turrets shooting at her. It is reasonable for Chell to draw the conclusion of "this huge robot is controlling the facility" at this point. And if the robot is making things shoot at her it makes sense to destroy the robot.
So she does. And she gets spit up onto the surface with absolutely no idea that GLaDOS had spent the entire time insulting her or even that she was sentient in the first place.
Which is very funny.
#portal#if you're reading this please know I have very little knowledge of portal lore#I just thought this would be fun#wayyyy too long of a post tbh it's really not that deep lmao#I'm kind of curious about Portal 2 but I really don't think it would fare as well#I think you get a LOT more info in that game through dialogue#and I'm really reluctant to play that whole game without sound so...I probably won't#maybe one day#anyway VERY funny#Chell “wtf is even happening rn” vs GLaDOS “nemesis doesn't know she exists”
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So I originally didn't really like Chloe Moriondo's Suckerpunch but upon my second listen suddenly it's really grown on me and now I'm kind of obsessed with it
#it's very different to blood bunny (which is still better btw)#but it's not bad#and I don't usually enjoy hyperpop#but I'm actually kind of loving most of these songs rn#so yk lmao#cass thinks ab stuff#music stuff#chloe moriondo
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in homosexual white collar news today, neal is handing over his wedding ring for peter :/
#white collar#homosexual white collar news#god i love this show#i'm on rewatch rn#to be clear i don't actually have a word for what i think their relationship is exactly#they truly are all things to each other#its like yuki yuki to matsu said:#“you're my mother you're my father you're my snot-nosed kid”#this bit in particular is very romantic coded tho#for anyone curious it's s2e14#the exact context is that peter has been kidnapped by keller#(side note i love keller he's so funny)#keller is demanding $2.5 mil to pay off the russian mob (long story) or he will kill peter#the only thing neal has worth that much he can access in time is the wedding ring he was going to give kate#(side note the ring is SO ugly lmao if i was kate i would divorce him just for that)#so he's giving it up#it literally represents his dreams of marrying and growing old with kate#and he's willing to give it up for peter#it's symbolic of him getting over kate's death#and he can only do it because peter needs him to#makes me truly insane
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so here's my latest pmatga idea
bitter exes: old man edition™
#sir cumference#buttler#delbert heinbech#<- my hc name for butler#pmatga#pac man and the ghostly adventures#my art#btw this is supposed to take place during 'seems like old times' when sir c's being held captive in betrayus' throne room#bc (if i'm remembering correctly) that's the only time these two are ever in the same location together in the show#also bc i don't think i've ever mentioned it before: i personally hc sir c's first name as clarence#bc clarence cumference sounds funny to me#also also look. there's just something Very Funny to me abt *these two* in particular +#+ having a 'dated decades ago; had an incredibly messy break-up; have hated each other ever since' dynamic with each other#the friendliest old guy on pacworld & the most conflict-averse old guy in the netherworld have relationship drama that's old enough to drin#not even over the war or anything either; it's just normal break-up shit#also also also yea dr b & betrayus are (technically) here too. i just. didn't feel like drawing them rn lmao#just pretend they're in the background somewhere having a Live Slug Reaction moment
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almost came out to my sister today except she was on speakerphone with her husband so that did NOT happen lmao
#nothing against my BIL i just. want to keep it to the people i trust most in my family for now.#of all my immediate family she's the one i trust the most. completely 100%. oldest brother is a close second.#i think i do want to come out to them in the near future. haven't really figured out what i'm gonna say to them though.#hgrhghh.#winter speaks#personal#and i have to figure out what im going to say to the family At Large too..........................SIGH.#i dont even know if i want to come out to the whole family because i know some of them are republicans but i dont know which ones#bc there's a strict ''no talking about politics'' rule at every single gathering for as long as i can remember. lmao.#so i have no idea which family members will grudgingly tolerate me and which ones want me euthanized lmaooooooo#i don't even. really Want to come out to the whole family honestly. but i don't know how much of a long term solution that is.#whatever. im not gonna worry about all that rn bc i have to worry about how im gonna tell my siblings.#and i trust that they wont tell the rest of the family about it until im ready for it but i should probably be prepared just in case they d#because with my wonderful beautiful loving family you can never ever fucking tell :) <3#im very sure about my brother and sister tho.#whatever. its midnight i should not be thinking about stuff like this#but idk i was literally planning on coming out to her today but she just had a baby so she had the phone on speaker while she and#her husband were taking care of him/my older nephew#next time i guess.
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Tagged by @soyouwinagain to post 6 photos from my camera roll in the past week, thank you comrade, I was hoping someone would tag me 🫡🫡 except then I had to go back a couple weeks otherwise all six photos would have been my dog at a cocktail garden.
Ivan Fedotov and Erik Johnson at Flyers training camp, Fedotov in full Russian saint mode; a flower outside of an Indian restaurant; Yankees outfielders running away from each other and I'm so mad I only got them running back to position bc they were being SO cute while a reliever was warming up; Keats at the aforementioned cocktail garden, he was sweatin'; giant rotting boat outside of Ikea; boxes containing all of my earthly possessions.
#having a good day 😭 went to rittenhouse to hang with sierra while they did work then went to a flyers rally and got free stuff#heroically refrained from asking flyers reporters about danny briere's plan for eetu mäkiniemi during the q&a#took the bus all by myself!!!! an actualy achievement lol i'm so scared of buses and i was so worried i would end up in like delaware#but i did not i ended up at my house#so now i feel much more confident about taking the bus..exposure therapy LMAO#went to a pizza place near me i have not been too and it FUCKS#my new favorite thing to do rn is if i can eat anything on the menu and its super slow in the restaurant is to ask#what the cashier or server recommends. way better than if i were just panicking and ordered cheese pizza#i need to start unpacking my art supplies and bathe my dog but overall...VERY good day so far#if the padres and the phillies pull through we'll be in good shape#OH!!!! AND EVERYONE BEING SO SO BRAVE FOR TEAM LIFT FEST!!!#ME N MAX ARE SOOOO PROUD OF EVERYONE AND I'M SOOOO EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE NEXT TWO WEEKS BRINGS!!!!#i've been having some frustrations with myself bc there was a lot of stuff i should have scaled down and didn't#and my ethos running this w max is way different than fth but none of the sign up materials reflect that#which i'm frustrated with myself for not thinking through more carefully and conscientiously#even tho going into this we knew so much of the fest was going to be us throwing puddy at the wall and seeing what sticks#but i have been frustrated with myself for not thinking through how materials like the sign up form don't reflect the like spirit of how we#wanted to run it#so it's really nice to see that people are being really brave and getting excited for each other and getting excited for what's#being offered#i'm sooooo excited!!!!!!!!!#ok i'm done lol i have to finish this soda and face the disaster that is how i packed my art supplies#when i can do art again. know.#fresno oilers.txt
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not afraid of oc posting anymore <3 (person who is still afraid of oc posting </3)
#i'm like oh no what if ppl i don't know don't like the random guy who exists only in my head. ahhhh#wish i didn't care so much bc other ppl don't but unfortunately i am too self aware and i DO care. very much#me saying this like i wasn't ranking his names last night & posting shirtless pics of him lmao#.......... and then i logged out of tumblr and went to sleep out of sheer embarrassment of talking on him on his blog#normally i don't feel weird talking ab ocs other than eldon bc i love him so much it feels odd sharing him ig#but new guy has given me the brainrot and now i feel annoying about him too. can't win i fear#and when ppl talk to me about him and remember things i mentioned about him i'm like ''oh ppl actually pay attention... huh''#bc i feel annoying. i genuinely want to talk about him forever rn but i think it'd be annoying if i did#can i be normal. can i please be normal. can i stop feeling annoying and stupid over anything i like#then my brain says no and i'm like oh ok </3
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