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[codacheetah]

Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

(SCARE CHORD)

Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

[floralia-rising]

Some of my favorites out of my fandragons!

Magolor Soul

Sectonia Soul

Nightmare

Morpho Knight

Lor Starcutter

Battleship Halberd

Galactic Nova

Drawcia

Flamberge

Sirica

Garlude

[batfossil-fr]

twirls him around in my arms

[ribbitflings]

the absolute fucking letdown when youre excited af about something cool you found that pertains to your interests—thats like a gold mine or candy shop for you—and you try to share it with other people so they can enjoy it too, only to be met with disinterest or feeble attempts at feigning interest

[transparenttransgender]

Transparent xerox-style images of various mobility aids.

[beebfreeb]

try setting View > Zoom > Actual Size ? or right click inspect element the blurry pixelart and add "image-rendering: crisp-edges;" to its style?

Everything should be displaying at actual size. However, using my own website as an example... images that displayed perfectly fine on my other laptop are now

Weird and blurry. Changing a single element doesn't really solve the problem of this effecting All Images That I Look At In Browser, and it is still being resized awkwardly in a way I don't know how to turn off.

Zooming out to 80% seems to put the image back to it's original size, but I can't do that on every website without text becoming unreadable to me or breaking the layout.

I think part of the problem is that this is a higher resolution screen, but I don't understand why it's not displaying images at the size they are. Why is Firefox doing this to me? What.

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

young Angel Coulby you poor darling. I don't know how much you were paid for this photoshoot but it wasn't enough

[starflungwaddledee]

actually been meaning to make a post like this for a while, but i keep forgetting and was reminded of it again today! if i ever interact with someone or something questionable, feel free to let me know! i'm still learning how to navigate tumblr and fandom spaces, and i haven't been here as long as some other folks, so there's likely to be things i just don't know about!

edit: ALSO if you want to reach out to me about something like this and can't dm, you can send an ask and preface it with asking me to keep it private and/or to dm you. i respect that totally and always!

[starakex]

So when I was much younger and had just figured out I could watch KH2 cutscenes on Youtube I was convinced anime conventions were a thing that was just in Japan (despite my ability to watch Demyx Time on Youtube clearly proving otherwise) so you bet your ass when my little tourist bus passed by on the exact day Anime Boston 2010 was happening and I spotted Kingdom Hearts characters crossing that one nearby sky bridge it absolutely changed my brain chemistry forever and I used up a considerable portion of the memory on the camera capturing photos of this religious experience. It was a complete happenstance, a tangible proof that conventions were real! (And I absolutely resented the inability to split off from the group to go check it out. I was MAD)

I'm pretty sure I lost these photos by now, but Every Single Photo of that moment looked exactly like this

[wizardlocation]

leaving q note that with everything going on rn on this webbed site that my carrd has my other art accounts on it. this is really the only one I kept up with but the other ones are ways to find me and partially kept up.

[misqnon]

tabs open while writing zosan fanfic

thesaurus.com

spongebob wiki

google search for 'ghibli hair'

wikipedia page for risotto

document on vaulted ceilings within gothic architecture

google image search for the color chartreuse

[mylittlestims]

Well this was unexpected, why did they upload my cropped pic instead of like one of my custom gifs??? Or even the custom pics I make for certain requests (take the pastel asexual lilac links & the storm king x tirek boards as exmples) like no shade to the uploader but why this image specifically???

[thewanderingmask]

AH tumblr sidebar jumpscare

[bmpmp3]

love live bluebird's music style so far has been like, this near-frantic, hype in a slightly offputting way type of sound thats been really fun and interesting. these girls aint right (compliment)

[qonphuceingey]

Read on for some painful attempts at doing statistics maths and Python. I’ve decided to try and model how powerlifting world records would change over time, assuming that training methods have been perfected and the only thing left now to improve is have better genetics.

I’ll assume the population of powerlifters over time is described by p(t). Since genetics is modelled by a normal distribution, I thought that I’ll just match lifts so that the chance of getting a lift equal to 1 out of the total number of powerlifters is equivalent to the chance of a certain world record. So 1 - CFD(x) = 1/p(t). Solving for x(t) = inverse CFD(1-1/p(x)).

Then I asked chatgpt what a real statistician might use to model this and they said something about a Gumbel distribution so that’s nice. I got it to put them into a Python script to print out some graphs to compare them and had a look using some random good guesses at what things like the mean and standard deviation of powerlifting totals might be. This gives me some nice estimates although they are certainly underestimates.

Here is an example for the 105kg weight category:

This assumes that there are a maximum number of people interested in powerlifting, so it tails off at the top when we get close to that total number. This is an underestimate of about 100kg.

I thought the graph was an interesting shape. I expected it to be much more logarithmic.

[kjzx]

I finally managed to screenshot this phenomenon. What's up with Tumblr highlighting blue color specifically like this on loading images?