#it’s just about the frequency

[himbybimbybimbo]

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[notbecauseofvictories]

Watching this again, it becomes incredibly clear in s3 that Nate is teaching Parker how to run her own crew. He fully anticipates that she will be his legacy, and more than anyone else---more than Sophie or Hardison, more than Eliot (though I would argue that Eliot never even slightly wanted it)---he is teaching her how to take over, think like he thinks and plan like he plans. He fumbles some of the emotional stuff, never actually tells her explicitly...but by the time you reach s3 he's clearly all-in. He's decided. Parker is going to be Nate 2.0, with different more exciting bugs than the 1.0 version.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[stagefoureddiediaz]

rewatching with the benefit of distance from the actual viewing - it really is so loud at how much tommy treats buck like a child - like literally every single interaction they have in 805 is like a parent talking to a child.

Combined with the shows decision to have Tommy call Buck 'Evan' all the time, feels like they're really trying to convey that this is the relationship equivalent of Buck's childhood and young adulthood - before he became Buck. When he was figuring out his place in the world and who he wanted to be. Its very much feeling like in combination its leading up to him getting to the same place in his bisexuality as when he started at the LAFD academy and changed his name to Buck - that he will make the choice from a bisexual perspective to become Buck and leave Evan behind once more.

[uldahstreetrat]

musing to myself this morning about the idea of penpals in fantasy settings like XIV

I miss my penpals from college, we used to send each other tea and plant clippings and little drawings (several of which I keep hung up by my desk space yet), and it makes me wonder what that would look like in Eorzea - there IS a mail system, after all, and I wonder what people include for their friends in different places

do you think dragonets would find penpals? interacting with the wider world at large by learning to hold a pen and scribbling away in a language they don't totally understand?

I think I'd like having a little dragon penpal. I wish we got mail from the characters we've met in the past

[glowsticcc]

let me cook. picture me this.

we're about 12-14 months into hermitcraft season X and people's seasons are starting to wind down. finishing touches on megabuilds, games are being played and episodes are mostly spent with the hermits just screwing around for fun, (snails, gigacorp, cleos story for their base, etc. are all wrapping up)

however, one thing that has been prevalent throughout the entire season, so much more so than seasons' past, was the fact it seemed it was always raining. not just little in-game showers that lasted maybe 20 minutes no, i'm talking rain that would last hours, days even! and this has been very notable with multiple hermits addressing it in their videos and not being able to get around filming during the times when the sun was out, because it never lasted too long.

anyways, this doesn't matter that much, and many hermits learn to enjoy the rain! gem's trident shop ends up selling out quick as people realize riptide 3 tridents are much more efficient for elytra travel compared to rockets, and with the right shader packs many are able to make their videos more atmospheric and ✨aesthetic✨. so overall, the rain isn't a huge issue, just a minor inconvenience.

until the river starts flooding.

it's inconspicuous at first. very few hermits have builds that are right at sea-level so even fewer even notice any huge change. plus, the water only rose by one block so who cares. days pass by, then a couple weeks, no change, no worries. then it rises again. again, only by a block, but now the waves are starting to lap at the foundation of some houses, shorelines and property-lines becoming closer to being one and the same. now, while not too fussed, some hermits are starting to become slightly paranoid about the water.

the next water rise comes quickly, mere days after the last. still one block but now the hermits are taking quick notice. the race to high ground is swift, many building new bases on nearby mountains, other more dedicated hermits moving their entire bases up onto stilts to avoid their beautiful builds being drowned by the ever-expanding ocean deep. and the water keeps rising.

redstone farms are destroyed, the shopping district has become a capitalistic lost city of atlantis, grian and gem are unsurprisingly thriving in their new aquatic environment. the only safe dry areas are the nether and the end, because how would you flood the void.

we've reached the near end of the season, the sea expanding out for thousands of miles, as far as the eye can see, with the tops of mountains having become islands, sanctuaries from the deep unknown blue of the ocean. grian, gem, impulse, skizz, scar, joel and mumbo all sit on what used to be magic mountain, now just a few blocks above sea-level, looking out across the endless ocean skyline through the near eternal rainstorm.

"grian," mumbo begins. "yes?" grian sighs, tired and weather-beaten from the endless downpour.

"is the ocean big?"

[melmedarda]

When Arcane season 2 drops, I know I'm going to have to apologize for the person I'm gonna become. I will be unhinged on main. I will be absolutely inconsolable and insufferable.

[annabelle--cane]

I love that you're kind of a Magpod information kiosk. Why Google or check the website when you could ask Tumblr user Annabelle Cane? /lh

Rusty Quill should be paying for your services tbh

they call me one-man-wiki marina. the archive of the archives marina. extremely niche beholding avatar marina.

[sichore]

As a certified lizard keeper™️ i should implement some handy dandy traits for future dragon Sylus content:

-Headbobbing to assert dominance

-Feet stomping for the above+attention

-Settling onto warm spaces with a wiggle for sleepies

-Third eyelids

-Head tilts, especially at Objects above him

-Tasting new things to learn about them

-Stink eye? Stink eye

-Strong tail grip

-Chewing is a learned habit, this guy WILL eat things whole

[its-been-rose]

Hi

Under eighteens need not open this post

[cryptocism]

yoohoo, I just need you to know you've ruined my life✌️ /j but like. finished reading frequency, what three days ago now? and since the moment I put it down, I have been. directionless. listless. I am consumed by, not DESPAIR, because despair is too passionate a word but. dissatisfaction? I miss the life I lived while I was still reading it. which is honestly rather appropriate considering some of the themes in the fic. I miss the person I was when half of my mind existed in the realm of the au. I fear I may never get over it and I may never recover the life I once had before this fic ruined me for all others, but I also cannot bring myself to regret reading it even if I never feel satisfaction again. I have tasted ambrosia, and the bread and wine of men shall forever be ash upon my tongue. pay my therapy bill.

i know these asks were sent in july but i love them and want to immortalize before they get buried in my inbox

first of all thank you so much!!! frequency has been one of my favourite projects to do over the past couple years i love that ppl are so into this absurdly niche fic. (i cannot pay ur therapy u simply must reread it forever rip (i mean writing it was like 50/50 self-indulgence and catharsis which means maybe reading it does the same thing lmaoo))

second yes! yeah it was Six who changed the timeline. a big old theme, possibly the main theme, of the whole fic is about change and who gets to create it. Six mirrors Thad in the ways that he believes himself unworthy of importance, and that the capacity to create change is inherently barred from him because of who and what he is.

so it was really important that Six was the one to make the choice to try change things - the guy whos entire powerset relies on being as inconsequential as possible. it shatters the original timeline, it results in his death, it causes a lot of very bad ripple effects, but he also saves Nathaniel. who saves Jude. who together both save Thad - who saves Bart and CRAYDL and defeats Three and discovers his own capacity for change in the process.

that was sort of the point of the whole "the spectrum of change is a horizon, not a tower" litany. there's no hierarchy. anybody can go towards it, they just gotta choose where they're going.

Six doesn't really save the day, but by wrenching the prewritten tragedy off its course, he creates the opportunity for Thad & co. to save it themselves.

[pcktknife]

i know everybody hates it but I think it's funny as fuck itto keeps showing up for no reason cause why the hell was he vaguely mentioned in arlecchinos story quest

[just-a-lil-critter]

🚨🚨what is happening whAT IS HAPPENING??!!!🚨🚨

i. i was just having a peaceful day. making my way downtown walking fast. y'know, the usual. and then this drops in my notifs like a nuclear blessing and absolutely obliterates all sense of sanity like-

Horikoshi buddy you better have some fat bills in your bank acc for all thE THERAPY I AM GOING TO NEED HHOLLYYY FFFUUC-

[pickled-flowers]

It's my birth right as an asexual to be irritated all the time

[rosekasa]

there is something so. intensely frustrating about feeling incapable of showing up for people the way that they want you to

[uncreative-cryptid]

i feel like the cosmic horror of the retroact rain needs to be expanded upon and the fact that tacet discords can be aware and intelligent enough to do things the human population would never be able to fully explain is slept upon a little too quickly

like what do you mean the mourning aix is incredibly aware and intelligent and seems to have some understanding that humans can equal help

what do you mean that in the retroact rain i could literally be standing there and people i have known, seen, and regretted not having more time with, can just appear and seem to be aware of me and i am aware of them regrettably

how many resonators lost their damn mind on the field with their own shame, regrets, and pain, laid bare before them and them alone, hallucinating the bonds of what could have been and what would never again be, because of the retroact rain???

and there's literally nothing to stop that??? at all??????????? we just have to deal with it and try to prepare our soldiers and resonators for the worst?????????

anyways i've been thinking about cosmic horror a lot