#it's wild on the internet sometimes

[batwynn]

One of the top ten funniest/best experiences of being a (any creative field) creator online is seeing someone tag/comment something completely different than the intended message or subject of the art/photo/story was, and it genuinely doesn’t matter if it’s not what you intended for them to experience with the thing because they got something out of it and as wild and out of left field as it is, it’s just… good.

And I don’t mean people who do the willingly misunderstand no reading comprehension and likes to yell at people thing.

I mean someone tagging suburbs on a photo of an extremely rural house. I mean someone writing an entire mini fic about an art piece that is so far from anything you were thinking of when you drew it but it’s got that heart and soul. I mean someone tagging their masc af bestie in a post about sparkly magical girls with ‘this you?’ and you can’t tell if it’s irony or genuine gender fuckery or both. I mean ship or fandom tags from 900 fandoms away on your Marvel ship art. I mean those ‘that’s me’ tags on frog pictures. I mean the seemingly random stories of life events someone went though that are followed up with the person looking concerned in the drive through window jpg. I mean the ‘wish that was me’ tag on an anime clip of someone burning alive. I mean shared experiences and ‘damn bitch you live like this?’

It’s all good. I’m beyond thrilled that you experienced something. I don’t know what it is, sometimes, but that doesn’t matter. You experienced something. And I just think that’s cool af.

[ex0rin]

i just blocked whoever this was but this is so funny to me that i'm still gonna put it here

my friend, i've been on tumblr dot com since 2008 and based on this ask, probably online in general since before you were born - the onus has NEVER been on the one posting to shield other people from content

you have GOT to learn how to ignore things or block without engaging if it bothers you so much, your life will so much better for it

[ajthemagpie]

Fanfic authors, please, I implore you, from one writer to another, DO NOT DELETE YOUR WORKS. Change the account ownership, make a different pseud to put it under, anonymise or orphan them, it doesn't matter, just please, please, PLEASE, do not delete them. Please. Even if you think they're badly written, or out of character, or a decade old, or 'cringe', or whatever, there will be some poor schmuck out there who loves what you've written and will cry over its deletion because they forgot to download it. - Sincerely, some poor schmuck who loves what someone wrote and has spent the last ten hours trying to track it down because he forgot to download it.

[blenselche]

Hey @blenselche- just thought I would check in and say hi👋 Hope you are doing okay❤️

hi ik its been since

but im doing good except a deer kicked my headlight out when my car was parked :((

[flickering-nightfall]

just asking, what if an iterator possibly gets too hot or cold? What happens if they can’t get to safer temps with out outside forces? What if they can’t get to safer temps at all?

Do you mean superstructures or puppet-bound iterators? I'm sure superstructures have a lot of failsafes to deal with temperature fluctuations, mostly via processing water intake. They're living saunas! They probably have an incredible resistance to both hot and cold, as evidence shows.

I'll talk about puppets here, but if you meant superstructures, well... a lot of what I'll say here could apply to superstructures too.

(For puppet-bound iterators, I am referring to my AU CDSS)

For heat: Puppet-bound iterators, like their former superstructure bodies, run hot and need to stay hydrated. They rely on liquid coolant that runs throughout their bodies. Ruptures in the coolant system are one of their many common problems, but with medical aid, they're not too serious. Many cases are self-healing, or the rupture will seal itself off and reroute around the blockage - like with collateral circulation. Leaks into essential systems are more of a concern than the actual loss of coolant. As long as they stay cool and drink water while waiting to get fixed, they tend to be fine.

If they are stuck in a hot region and can't escape, they'll suffer from dehydration, heat stroke, fried components, damage to organic tissue, seizures... pretty much what you'd expect. As a superstructure, Moon probably suffered from all this leading up to her collapse.

For cold: They're fairly resistant for a few reasons. One is the antifreeze in coolant. Another is the heat that they naturally produce. I'm thinking they have silicone-based skin, which is very cold resistant. They have hemocyanin, which tends to function better in extreme cold than hemoglobin. (Hemocyanin can also work at hotter temperatures. I have like a whole essay about this that I still intend to post lol.) However, the puppets have been modified to have more flexible and sensitive skin - dexterity in exchange for some durability. They're more susceptible to the perception of cold than they would be if they were a still a superstructure. Many of them also dislike snowscapes on principle, because they've been freezing their decaying metal butts off for centuries by the time CDSS happens.

Iterators in both forms are very moist, so if it's cold past their limits, their mechanical components will freeze. And like with hypothermia in fully organic beings, prolonged time in extreme cold will lead to tissue death and organ failure. Superstructures with fractured exteriors (direct exposure of internal parts to the cold air) are especially susceptible to this.

Misc theory about superstructures: Moon's superstructure was able to stay intact into Saint's era because she collapsed straight down into the water, preserving most of her shape. The canyon water could have provided the pressure and circulation she needed in the absence of gravity cores, as well as protection against land pests and insulation against the cold. Remnant slag could have her generate excess heat as well, which would keep the water surrounding her unfrozen. In a way, dying like that could have helped her live longer?!

Thanks for the question anon, this was very fun :P

[averlym]

I just found my old tumblr sign in and I am so happy/proud to see that you’re still as creative as ever!! Never forget how talented and appreciated you are! - Duckie 🦆💚 (the10amongstthese3s)

:OOOOOO duckie it's been so long!! hi ily @the10amongstthese3s

[freyholland]

It’s funny that there’s this hugely vocal wave of negativity about the Borderlands Movie from people who haven’t actually seen it. and then when you talk to people who Did go out and see the movie they’re largely like “Yeah it was ok 🤷”

[lavendertarot]

I can't be the only one who feels weirded out when people plug their donations/links/whatever at the bottom of posts about serious topics or even just like shitposts. Like I understand the wish to translate eclout to financial help when you're struggling, but there's something very cheapening to both the irl circumstances and the serious topics being discussed here when you cap it all off with "hey give me money" idk.

[willowfoot]

it’s really funny to me the amount of times I’ve been approached by total strangers in public asking me questions I Do Not know the answer to but I guess I just give off approachable (?) vibes or something 💀

[squirrelwrangler]

Re: your recent post about WoT - if I am not someone who is well versed in mythology (Arthurian, Norse, Vedic, any other mythos the series references), will that significantly impact my ability to understand and enjoy the series? How much context/foreshadowing will I lose? Is there a resource I could turn to that can identify these references that would go over my head without significantly spoiling the plot?

I call them Easter Eggs because that's the fandom term for them. They're very very rarely really plot important in anyway that would meaningfully impact the reading or watching, at least to my biased opinion, but also I was familiar going into the series with some but not all of the references and as a book reader who frequently lurked in the forums and theory crafting sites of the early 2000s, I don't know what online references are both currently up-to-date and have non-spoilery sections. I think on Youtube Unraveling the Pattern is pointed to as the lore series that does the most non-spoiler/newbie-friendly breakdowns.

But to give you a hint- for Arthuriana, as long as you know Excalibur as a magic sword concept, then as a fantasy fan you won't be surprised that there's a magic sword showing up at all in the series and if you squint the name sounds like Excalibur. Or knowing that "Galad, Elayne, Nynaeve, Gawyn, Camelyn, Tigraine" all are very similar to names from Arthuriana: Galahad, Gawain, Nimue/Ninianne( aka Lady of the Lake), Elaine, Camelot, Igraine. Which for those examples, only a few of them really have any relevance on their plot or hints of prophecy conclusions (and some are red herrings meant to trip up fans who do know the reference and thus make them guess wrong), but all those names come from places or characters in the country of Andor, which has the strongest concentration of Elizabethan English flavor to the world-building, so the vibe that the reader (or show watcher) gets is "Ah, this is the English and King Arthur place". So you start looking for Round Table or Avalon or Merlin (and maybe find one or two of those. Maybe.)

For instance- Perrin's name is an allusion to Slavic mythology, the chief god Perun, who controls weather - especially storms and thunder, also war (famously an axe), and oak trees. But that reference to Slavic mythology isn't widely known; I certainly didn't know about it while reading the books until I went online. But, thanks to the Indo-European shared roots, what I did notice was "hey this vaguely reminds me of Thor. And like, a little bit Zeus, but also Hephaestus." So when Perrin has some heavy symbolism attached to both a hammer and an axe, and the dichotomy of the blacksmith versus the warrior, the connection via his supporting cast to trees ... it congeals in the back of my brain that even if I don't know exactly what Easter Egg I might be catching, I don't need to know Perun to like Perrin and be comfortingly familiar. So even though Rand is the character with the last name al'Thor, I knew that reference was the red herring. Perrin was my Thor guy, and I knew to expect that Perrin would forge himself a magic hammer that would have a name that sounds like Mjolnir at some point in the series. (This is technically a late series spoiler, but it's so heavily foreshadowed, and thanks to the MCU I think most people know about Thor's hammer by now).

For real-world references, those can be even more heavily disguised. the most famous one is at some point a character comes across an object that 'feels like greed' that is actually the logo bit of metal on a fancy sports car- a BMW or Lexus or something like that - I don't even remember which car brand it was supposed to be. So, yeah, anon, that tells you just how important some of the Easter Eggs are and how missing them didn't impact my enjoyment.

The costuming (and casting) for the TV show does a great and yet subtle job of hinting that the world is post-apocalyptic and far far far in our future. The glimpses of clothing from 3,000 years ago looks almost but not quite like our modern clothing with only a little hint of SF, and the present day 'fantasy' clothing still has touches of modernity. Plus the diversity of everyone, aside from pissing off racists, also helps to sell that thousands of years ago everyone had intercontinental travel and trade and people moved around and the globe was connected- so that of course when the Breaking of the World happened thanks to half of the magical society going murderously crazy against their will (some of the saddest backstory hints from that time period are the male wizards and their friends trying to hold back against this madness as long as they could trying to save pieces), people are stranded regardless of origin, so rarely is there an initial starting ethnic hegemony. And, again with the reference hints you don't need to catch to still enjoy, each of the various countries and cultures in the Wheel of Time that exist in the present day series is inspired by or drawing on usually at least two different history cultures or places. For instance, the nation of Cairhein is modeled off a blend of 17th and 18th century France, especially the court of Louis XIV the Sun King, but also Heian era Japan. And when you see it in the show, the outfits and the furniture and the general vibes have those hints.

Or the Tuatha'an, a group you meet in the first book/first season. They're called the Traveling People and the Tinkers, known for nomadic lifestyle and being shunned by others, but also for their colorful clothing and wagons, love of song and dance, and that they are staunch pacifists. So, from the name, it sounds like the Tuatha De Danann of Irish mythology which you might know especially if you were big into faeries as a kid. But culturally they sound familiar to the real world Irish Travelers and the Roma and also the pacifism of people who follow Jainism. They -and their Way of the Leaf- are their own thing, so you don't need to know the nods and inspirations.

[dirtytransmasc]

I wish i can Kill you

and see her ladies and gents, gents and ladies, lents and gadies, gadies and lents... yet another rude, and in this case death threat of sorts, from who I can make an educated guess (considering my current content) is crazy HOTD and most likely Team Black fan.

can I be 100% sure this is the reason they're saying they want to kill me, no, but it's more than likely, which is honestly so embarrassing. like omg I'm so scared. and are you really willing to go to jail over social media, better yet, if I'm right, over the characters I like/side of a war I take for a fucking show? cause that's truly some weird fucking behavior.

truly blown away by this.

if you don't like my Pro Green content just fuck off. if you don't like ANY content, by ANYONE, just leave it be, block them, don't do this.

[swingstab]

I don't know how to talk to people sadly. I live in a padded cell away from humanity. Sometimes I breach containment and scream (or post) on social media before I get dragged back to solitary.

[linolinoing]

[warrued]

i have returned from the war...... aka nyc, london, paris, and amsterdam. XD

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Sometimes I feel bad for the authors who are now more famously known as twinks from that one anime than they are as authors

[colormints-art]

pretty much done with the charity techno drawing and very happy with how it turned out ayee

still gonna make my mind up on the last color correction to finish it off for good but ayee finishing something ~5 days before deadline?? me?? incredible

gonna do some smaller art stuff and skribbles soon again then but no more full illustrations with background and all for a while i guess it just takes wayyy too much time in my current state to finish these even semi regularly its ridiculous OTL

so june is probably gonna be filled with more character design sketches and some headshots and then we gotta see how things will go after my appointment to get my wrist checked out (that is doing much better atm but is always quick to tingle and hurt again hhh) very prepared for a long art break during summer but who knows how itll go c: