#it’s kinda ridiculous ngl

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I don’t know why but my Pinterest is insisting I get back into the hunger games fandom. It’s now added to the list of fandoms I will randomly be posting about!

[deltastorm101]

Alan Wake 2 — A Love Letter | Development Diary

[deus-ex-mona]

real talk: lxl should continue to explore romance fantasy concepts in their songs. it’s clearly working for them~

[nostrildamus]

them: so what have you been up to recently

me: oh yknow drawing nose porn

them: what

me: what

[thatskynews]

hello, i was wondering what joining/helping out with the blog would entail, to see if i would be fit to help since I’m interested in helping :D

Honestly mostly Anxy and me just quietly sit in our own corners and see what is needed or unposted typically, but for anyone who's curious this is quite honestly my thoughts on it:

have access to the official sky:cotl discord's news channels (news, known-issues, vault-of-socials, and quick-dev-update)

No bigotry of any sort (this is very much a strict rule: any transphobic, racism, homophobia, sexism, support of genocides, etc will not be accepted here. If you respect people it's very likely you're fine)

Be nice to people if possible (neither me or Anxy will bite- I only react negatively if you do something horrible to others.)

No beta spoilers or leaks¹ are allowed to be posted here. (I mean it, especially as someone WHO has access to beta: that is suppose to be correctly tagged and kept away from the main sky tags if possible as simple skyblr etiquette. yes this includes tagging us in them, tag me instead if it comes to it.)

These are very simple and direct things from the top of my head. Asking for help is always allowed here, I've definitely asked for help before and we do talk about our thoughts on certain details when it comes to it. We're both fairly timid as a warning, but I do believe we're fine and open about new mods.

¹In information about Sky's history: they can be mentioned, but usually do not mention leaks if possible, especially if they're still of possible future content.

-Ymir

[widevibratobitch]

my dad's gf engaging in some truly wilddddd ED behaviours while im just sitting there like

[imaginarianisms]

on house s.tark.

[braverytattoos]

how many times will I have to input my email for Louis???

[snappies]

Aziraphale, the new Supreme Archangel.

Bro is looking cvnty— get it, you supernatural entity. Flaunt those biblically accurate eyeballs ✨

[inkmaze]

gnawing at the slats of my cage just sinking those teeth right in there

[wonder-worker]

apparently Laynesmith has argued that Joan of Kent and Thomas Holland may not have actually had a pre-contract in “Joan of Kent’s Tale: Adultery and Rape in the Age of Chivalry”, Medieval Life 5 (1996): 7-9.

has anyone read it & what do they think of it?

[cranky-kyrati]

OMFG i completely forgot i wrote this random snippet from the coffeeshop AU that i'm absolutely not going to write

~~~~~

"Shit. Fuck! Fuck. Shit shit fuck!"

"Such colourful language! Yet somewhat lacking in … vocabulary breadth."

You whip around - still on all fours - and are met by a pair of slightly worn but expensive-looking slippers. Above them, pajama pants. And your eyes travel up, and up, and past the pajama pants there's an expanse of skin that makes your mind white-out for a moment before you take in the face above, watching you with what might be faint amusement. It's very hard to tell from this angle, especially since your mind suddenly snags on a detail it overlooked before, and your eyes slip down again - past the chest with its patch of dark hair and down the trail from his navel to the…

"Enjoying yourself down there, hm?"

You squeak something. There were meant to be words in there but exactly what, you have no idea. You try again: "I'm sorry- Uh- I broke this plate- I'll pay for it, of course."

Which was an utterly ridiculous thing to say to a billionaire. But you were feeling utterly ridiculous at the moment, so.

Pagan, mercifully, twitches his dressing gown closed, then settles back against the counter. "What if I told you that plate was worth a fortune?"

You stare up at him. Some part of you is a little bit grateful: Now that you are blanching at the idea of owing Pagan Min money, you no longer have to worry about him noticing your blush after having checked out the bulge in his pajamas. From the floor. On your knees. Fuck.

[fashionbitchgd]

damn tumblr really is dead. twitter has been on fire the last 2 days since the gayest aespa member showed up dating a guy but i still haven't seen a word about it here lmao

[yellourr]

mourning bellajacob before I even start their little romance because stephanie doesn’t want me to have good things

[delphi-dreamin]

I keep catching sight of my tattoo in pictures I take of myself with the cats and it makes me so ridiculously happy every time? Like. I did that! I made that! And it looks good! I'm so happy with it! I mean, look at it!

And Milo because he's a cutie.

But it's just chilling! I did that!

[mumblesplash]

Alright, I'm gonna ask it. O Great Skulk Lord, what wisdom hath been released unto this world by way of the latest update of Mined Craft?

hehehe WELL first of all, since a not-insignificant part of my thesis here is "ha called it" i'm gonna go ahead and link to the two sculkposts i can find from back in december, here and here, bc even though they don't go into detail about echo shards i HAD already formed this theory at the time and you can sorta tell

so in the new update, which i just found out about today via an upload by mr. mumbo killsalot jumbo himself, players now have the ability to combine amethyst and sculk sensors to create *calibrated* sculk sensors capable of singling out and relaying redstone signals only in response to *specific* vibrations, as well as wirelessly relay those specific vibrations over long distances using amethyst blocks, which has probably a lot of cool implications for redstone that i cannot begin to understand.

in the context of the in-game lore, this strongly supports my already stated theory that sculk uses the impressions of souls it's consumed to calibrate itself, likely because sentient creatures (players) are the only things either dangerous enough or nutritious enough to actually be worth the energy to hunt.

but an extension of this theory which i didn't go into on here is that since naturally generated sculk as an organism is capable of tracking the sound a specific soul makes, and more importantly storing impressions of dead ones for comparison, it makes complete sense that it would be a key componenent in crafting the recovery compass, hence the echo shards.

the only problem is, you can't pick up sculk to use as a crafting ingredient without 'killing' it. even silk-touch harvested sculk is damaged; harvested shriekers or even shriekers generated by feeding a harvested catalyst can't summon the warden (they look different too, the souls inside are dimmer and spin the other way). my theory is and was that echo shards are a fusion of sculk and something to amplify/preserve its ability to 'remember' what souls sound like. amethyst shards seemed like the obvious choice, both because of the name and because minecraft amethyst is sorta the designated Sound Mineral, plus all the amethyst shards in ancient city loot chests.

on a morbid but relevant note, i think the shriekers sound like that for an in-universe reason, and it's the reason the recovery compass points not just to other players but specifically to your most recent death: sculk probably 'records' only the information it finds important about the things it eats and it doesn't eat the living, so the impressions it has stored of previous souls were recorded at the moment they died. the shriekers are just playing back audio. or possibly forcing the souls trapped inside to relive their deaths over and over. depends on how much of a soul it keeps around after it's done eating it

basically what i think, and i think the update strongly supports this, is that disconnecting sculk from its Sculk Colony messes with its ability to record and relay specific signals. amethyst, due to way it interacts with sound, can partially compensate for this, and this is likely a key mechanism behind how echo shards work. sculk sensors, which are simpler and more durable than the other sculk blocks, are also the easiest to work with, which is why calibrated sensors are possible to craft but echo shards (which have properties of both shriekers and catalysts) are not