#it seems unwise

[miriamforster]

This is Menzoberranzan.

Everyone likes to debate about how much trama Halsin should have from his time in the Underdark, but I haven’t seen anyone highlight the fact that the man was trapped in a city

And not just any city, a city that’s like half slaves, a city of gleeful misery, an underground city with no sun, no stars, no sky, and no seasons at all.

Halsin was chained in a bedroom, in a house, inside a city, with little visible nature and no access to wildshape for three years.

Even if he is mostly healed from the rest, I bet he still has nightmares about that.

[etirabys]

my sister lets her toddler have about an hour of screen time a week. two feelings I have about this are

1) there sure does seem to be something going on with kids and screens (although my bet is that TV is fine and games are mostly fine and social media is bad), so her approach seems possibly optimal

2) the long screaming rages my niece goes into when the mickey mouse video is taken away (which my sister takes as evidence of the frightening addictiveness of screens) during a boring meal with adults and no toys looks pretty much like how I'd feel if someone took my book away during a boring meal with adults

[palmtreepalmtree]

I am at Burbank airport where the thermostat on my mom's car said it is 121 degrees before she dropped me off. We both agreed that was an error of some kind, but honestly not by much. My most reliable source (Sharon, the hostess at my local diner) said that Burbank notched a 114 temp yesterday.

Glad to be leaving for the weekend but worrying about everyone else.

[unironicallycringe]

man I'm just gonna say that it's incredibly fucking weird to walk onto a stranger's blog, project your own predatory age headcanons onto a character with no canon age, and then decide that means the blogger condones it.

like?? my dude?? the only person talking about that is you because it's your headcanon?

"you're bad because I think of this ageless character as a 30yo being paired with a teen" well I sure goddamn don't and I didn't need to hear that shit! it's not only extremely inappropriate, it's creepy as fuck! so like, maybe do some self-reflecting on why you decided that a stranger should abide by your headcanon, and maybe also stop doing that.

[flyingfishflopsthings]

The thing they don't tell you about watching LotR for the first time is that it really is as good as everyone says it is.

[girlfriendline]

is double shifting kirill with the 4th line really necessary when we have a 3 goal lead in the 3rd period and we have three games in four nights

[caesarsaladinn]

oh god I am trying so hard to not be the guy bringing facts and logic to a hagiography

[nostalgia-tblr]

i just want to write some kind of fucked up shit and then finish it and post it and then feel i've done something😭

[tachyon-omlette]

can't sleep. posting updated Eda physiology diagram

more in-depth descriptions under the cut (feat. a rethinking of how dark energon/angolmois exists)

I use the term "cell-spawned" as a reference to how Armada Sideways was "grown from Unicron's own cells", implying there may be a difference between Unicronians that were once Cybertronians (ex. Galvatron) & those that were fully created by Unicron, like Sideways. or Eda.

cell-spawned Unicronians have 2 sets of major systems: molten metal & angolmois (dark energon)

the molten metal system is a vascular system equivalent, but a little different. ingested metals r smelted down until they're more liquid than solid (& as a consequence a Unicronian's internal temperature is extremely high), then passed through a network of arteries that deposit new metal around the antispark chamber & beneath external plating. this allows the antispark chamber to be reinforced even as its cargo slowly strips away the inner layer, & allows external weathering/surface-level injuries to be sheared off in favor of allowing new metal to grow underneath (which means neither Eda nor any cell-spawned Unicronian bears scars save for what they willfully upkeep). the metal is also infused with heat-resistant nanites once it enters the "bloodstream"; these nanites are what implant proximity sensors on exterior-facing plating & direct the flow of new metals to any pierced-armor injuries (the result of which leaves a scar that appears like a large weld, which can be sanded down or otherwise weathers away on its own). surface-level pierced-armor injuries are usually somewhat painless in the injured area, but release trapped heat & reduce mobility until that heat can be restored.

the dark energon aka angolmois system is, however, very different - where most things have interpreted angolmois as energon but Scary, in my mind it's more accurately an opposite: less fluid & more viscous like tar, a pitch-black that opalesces with deep purples & glitters like the night sky, and cold like the void of space. angolmois systems are more heavily-guarded than a Cybertronian's energon system; it is circulated usually where it is needed to cancel out or counterbalance the excessive heat generated by the molten metal systems (ex. the cpu/brain module & other finely-tuned systems), thus preventing a Unicronian from simply melting themselves down on accident. it also runs through major support structures like bone marrow, emitting a natural cooling that makes excessive heat integral to the use of limbs and digits, lest they grow frost - the rupture of an angolmois line is, thereby, equivalent in pain to a broken bone, & for a cell-spawned Unicronian who feels barely any or even no pain with more common & superficial scrapes, it is often a crippling injury. angolmois leaks are harder for the molten metal system to repair & often create systemic injuries by virtue of the extreme cold structurally compromising most metal it touches, & the damaged structures often require direct patching in order to aid the molten metal repair systems & prevent a total freeze-down. for cell-spawned Unicronians like Eda, angolmois can be naturally replenished by tapping into the entropy of the universe, whether that be through simply waiting (either lucid or in stasis) or artificially increasing localized entropy (i.e. causing problems & destruction & chaos wherever they are currently); for more severe cases the latter route is often necessary.

angolmois is still the most direct route to corruption, as it freezes & kills whatever it touches & often is difficult to recover from (ex. if some lands on a field of wildflowers, the wildflowers it lands on will die, along with the microorganisms living in that patch of soil. if it is removed, then only that place will have a dead area & over time will naturally repopulate; if it seeps into the ground, the entire field may die & will become hard or even impossible to repopulate a la the Prime Kindergarten from Steven Universe). for Cybertronians, coming in direct contact causes freezing injuries & in severe cases requires amputation. ingestion causes internal damage & generates and/or exacerbates inner turmoil(s).

any questions ?

[aterabyte]

god. I hate how physical disability can make combatting depression worse by randomly preventing you from leaving the house on a given day and forcing you to wallow more

[loquatenjoyer69]

"Coming down on you from above, jumping at you from the side...

'Sometimes...'

If it were me, could I survive that? It makes the ever-smiling Matoba-san seem terribly distant after all."

I think this moment isn't just a scene where Natsume realizes there's more to Matoba than just shady creepy guy, or that there's a reason he's a shady creepy guy. Midorikawa writing Natsume having this thought is asking the reader to finish it. If Natsume was in Matoba's position, could he survive what Matoba has? And the unspoken other half is what does it say about Matoba that he survives it? What parts of him have been constructed or have adapted so he can be ただただ嗤う的場さん (ever-sneering Matoba-san) and live as he does?

[unnonexistence]

do you ever start writing something and go "hmm this one element doesn't quite make sense, I should come up with a good explanation for it," so you start trying to come up with an explanation...

and then you black out and wake up 3 days later with extensive worldbuilding that has gone WAY OFF TRACK and STILL DOESNT EVEN MAKE THE ORIGINAL THING WORK

[ispyspookymansion]

ehhhhh im just a little birthday boy cmahn….

[limpfisted]

why does wyll have SEVENTEEEN charisma. and 10 wisdom. babygirl you are so charming and so unwise

[diehellasrache]

just clicked out of a travel video because mister voiceover pronounced it "seltic". the celtic influence on the culture of the faroe islands, where they taught the humble norsemen about the full court press and fadeaway jump shot,

[officialhouseguest]

perhaps i am wrong but my AFP theory is that FB casuals (cam voters) WILL vote 10x for sure but… once. on their real email and then… close the website and not think about it again. like the twitter fanbase is a small but fervent segment of the audience and with everyone all going so hard with voting for basically one of three or four people as far as i’ve seen (americory, cirie, maybe felicia are basically what i’ve seen but i also muted a lot of blue stans so who knows about her lmao) i’m… not that worried about who wins. if any of those people take it i’m happy and unless CBS bothers to figure out that like, cameronsbiggestfan @imstupid.com and fuckjagbains @yahoo.com are not in fact real email accounts that voted ten times for cirie (not impossible but seems unlikely that they would care about truly any part of this show) then i’m confident one of them is taking it