#it's embedded itself in my brain

[chemicalarospec]

"Hollywood" by Cute Is What We Aim For. Has anyone heard of this.

[borealing]

Inspired by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs. I wrote a companion piece, here on ao3

[gearsphere]

“The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear-“ -Annihilation, J. Vandermeer

[marclef]

first attempt at making a poke-sona type thing, might change him up a bit later but here he is.

y'all will never guess what my favorite pokemon is

no name yet, besides just calling him like Marc or Marclef or something. but here's some random additional facts i came up with for him:

probably like, 3/4 the size of a normal clefable. so like 3ft tall.

nice brown stripes on arms/chest that definitely don't represent anything else don't worry about it

extra fluffy. most prominent is the hair tuft/"facial hair" but the rest of him is fuzzy too.

gay

we'll see if i feel like changing the design any in the future though 👍

[trans-ruffboi]

[missionkitty]

[Image ID: a digital illustration of a large werewolf covered in dark brown hair closely holding and embracing a petite woman with light skin and dark brown hair on a dark grayish-purple background. the werewolf greatly outsizes the woman and his hand easily covers most of the woman's back as he holds her. they both look content with their eyes closed as they are close to each other. /End ID]

when i'm in that rare sleepy-but-not-tired state i always have to draw big cuddles...

[hrokkall]

TMA NEURON ACTIVATION what avatars would the scrybes be 👀👀👀

I don’t know if they’d all be avatars or just plain manifestations (maybe a combination of both) but I’d imagine it would be:

Leshy - The Hunt (self-explanatory)

Grimora - The End (equally self-explanatory)

Magnificus - The Spiral (was going to say The Eye originally for the joke, but he just seems like a Spiral guy—less in the “lying” way and moreso in the “twisting infinite patterns that entrance and confuse and disorientate” way but he’d trap someone in a wizard maze too if push came to shove. As a backup though you could consider the flesh because of. Gesturing vaguely to the wizard pupils).

P03 - The Web (A little bit of a weird choice but I think it fits with P03’s whole “self-preservation” deal that it strings along the player in order to accomplish… plus there’s the obvious World Wide Web pun here. Specifically I feel it would be a manifestation that ends up trapped in a computer and having to operate from there, similar to how the Spiral’s Lichtenberg Figure was trapped inside of Ex Altiora.)

If Inscryption as a whole were to be given as a statement though (as in, say, Luke calls into the Magnus Institute and talks about his experiences with the haunted cartridge retirement home he found in the woods) if you had to put it in a TMA category I’d say it would be a manifestation of the Extinction (four AIs fighting for dominance; a malevolent, world-ending string of code beneath them… feels pretty extinction to me).

And then some other characters as a bonus lightning round:

Kaycee - Touched by the Desolation, ultimately becomes an avatar of the Hunt to escape her fate.

Luke - Probably touched by multiple entities just because I think in all universes he should be having a hell of a time. Maybe he’s like Martin where every entity wants him like “Oh this guy will be SO easy to kill/manipulate” and then he ends up surviving (or dying but dying normally) by making decisions So Horribly Bad that not even Fear Incarnate could’ve predicted them.

Amanda/Sado - Manifestation of the Stranger. Obviously. (Carla is probably touched by the Stranger as a result; I just generally like the idea that Sado is loyal to no one except for her)

All of the underlings (if they exist) are touched by/manifestations of the same fear as their Scrybe, but aren’t avatars. Maybe not the bots though; unless they’re just a team of poor ass software developers who are suddenly compelled to keep this mysterious program up and running and adding features that even they don’t know the meaning of. Meanwhile Magnificus’s pupils are his students (similar to the situation with Robert Smirke), Grimora’s ghouls are people she bound to the end to save them from a grisly fate, and Leshy’s woodsmen… idk they’re like his drinking buddies or something and they go hunt monsters on weekends.

Not all of the minor characters are directly affiliated with any entity though. Characters such as Rebecha are completely unaligned (or if she has had any run-in with an entity no one is going to Ever know about it. At most I can see it being a Georgie Barker situation); the Woodcarver is actively ensuring she doesn’t become bound to any entity, despite Leshy’s influence; the Mycologists claim that they aren’t bound to any entity, but they’re collecting Leitners like trading cards for their “experiments” so it’s less so “unaligned” and more so “race to see whether the Corruption or the Flesh or a third secret thing stakes a claim first”.

The Bone Lord is definitely an End manifestation (unlike Grimora, who is the only one of the Scrybes who is most likely an avatar as opposed to a manifestation or a secret third thing) but I have no idea where they would fit in. Or maybe an extinction manifestation. I have no idea. They’re there though; not leaving them out

Don’t ask about the Hex cast here. I know by making Rebecha relevant they exist by extension but I have No idea where they’d fit in aside from being assorted statement givers (and maybe Lionel as one of those figures that shows up in multiple statements and makes people audibly groan every time there’s THIS GUY again but he’s just a normal dude who happens to be in a lot of places. That’s pretty fitting considering the plot of the game)

[xiaofiaan]

meow meow on the rooftop changed lives

[rutilated-quarz]

Ok I swear to god I remember a wayneradiotv clip from at least 2 years ago where it's like "why did you decline my steam gift? :(" "it's not a gift, it's hentai milf quiz 2, it's a fucking burden" if anyone can find it pleaseeeeee show me I think about it so often and can't find any trace of it and it haunts me

[starscreamingg]

It's almost December, you know what that means! Time to listen to carol of the bells and nothing but carol of the bells until the clock strikes 12 on new years eve

[domokunrainbowkinz]

man it always sucks when you like remember a fic you started writing years ago for a fandom you're not in anymore but the idea was so Juicy that you still wanna write it but it's just uhhhh you literally cannot remember anything specific about the piece of media, just vibes

[seased]

ill be shocked if bg3 doesnt win a goty but i also think likeeeeeee it doesnt really deserve one… like idk it really is the supernatural or general hospital or ncis of video games. the sheer AMOUNT of it is impressive. the dedication to CONTENT. there’s so much game. but most of it is just kinda bland?? i only remember like 3 moments in 400 hours that i was like shaken out of my gamer stupor. also mechanically its just dnd, like i do think they deserve something for implementing computer dnd really well, but the qol changes they made are so minuscule theyre total nerd shit. and we shouldnt give gotys for basically covers lol

tldr; quantity over quality… its not like its bad quantity but its like pleasantly mid. is a lot of pleasantly mid worth the same as a small amount of very good? we’ll find out lol

[fivestrandbraid]

About to see Oppenheimer for the literal ninth time LOL

[satanfemme]

I need to stop making "nu metal doggirl who listens to slipknot" jokes or one of these days someones gonna misunderstand the punchline and think stanning slipknot is part of my brand or something when really I only listen to them on occasion and couldn't even name a song of theirs off the top of my head, cause what "is" my "brand" is actually just humor based on -- well... you know... haha

[silversoulstardust]

putting anime on to keep me awake while having suhoor and this one character's got me like 'he sounds familiar' but nothing came to mind until I turned away to grab my vitamins and he spoke again when it immediately click 'wait this is sasuke'