#kaboom double post!

[secreterces5]

🌹 @maxlieweek2024 - Day 5 - Alone / Lost

She wanders around aimlessly, from statue to statue. Maybe one of them will be Maxwell. But no luck so far.

Where could he possibly be?

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I like to think when Charlie first got turned into the Grue, she just sort of..l wandered? Do you think she had any idea what was happening? The statues clearly piss her off based on the game lore… they matter to her. What was it like early on?

[solarockk]

they bring that "survivor of unimaginable manmade horrors" vibe to the table

[kkat-astrophic]

50 minutes until I can see him yay!!!!!!!! :3

[late-to-the-fandom]

WIP Soundtrack Tag

Thank you @shipping-through-eternity for the tag I’m calling the above for title reasons 😂

I’ll include a song for the two posted chapters of Wend in the Shadows and the one that i will hopefully still get to post this week in spite of my unexpected set backs.

Chapter 1: The Master Awaits

This has great opening credit vibes, plus the lyrics match the story. They’re mostly in Korean but the main line of the chorus translates roughly as “we were destined to eventually meet again.”

Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land

This was the song I listened to in my warm up of writing Elisewin’s perspective as she looks out over Revendreth from the top of the castle. It’s a great angsty song all about being disillusioned with a place that’s supposed to be utopia, which is definitely how amnesia!Elisewin feels learning about the after life in Revendreth.

Chapter 3: The Endmire

This song is fantastic for fast paced action sequences that double as flirting which is the whole theme of this chapter 😂

Tagging: @vcaudley @talesofsorrowandofruin @isabellebissonrouthier to share some songs that would be on the soundtrack for their current WIP

[wawawawawawawawawawawawawa]

(About an ask you answered earlier) (probably just me self reflecting so you don’t have to answer this obv)

Ok wait what’s considered a high sleeping heart rate??? Because I’ve been recording my heart rate for easily 2 years and my average sleeping bpm is 100 (but when I’m awake it’s 110-120, highest being 198, so maybe it’s not that bad in comparison)???

Man this is making me think I need to talk to my doctor again, but last time I did that I got referred to a cardiologist who told me I should drink more water and add an ungodly amount of salt to every meal (and to my water) to see if that does anything. (Same cardiologist also said I was just under meeting the requirement for POTS (and made me do an ultrasound for some fucking reason?????))

HI. UM? ??? ????????? ?

BESTUE. BESTIE. GRABS YOU BY THE FACE. BESTIE.

AN AVERAGE BPM OF 100 IS TOO HIGH FOR A WAKING BPM. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HEARTS CAN GO FUCKING 198 BEATS BER FUCKING MINUTE WITHOUT LIKE, EXPLODING OR SOMETHING

honestly i'm insuklted. the audacity to be more sick than me on my tummbed eler page??? rude. RUDE!!1 (this is /s by the way. i'm extremely high rn i tried a new brand of edible and it's VERY working so sorry if this makes no sense but i needed to get this out NOW like a sailor relaying a message from the titanic herself. lest YOU die of heart explode)

(please do not get too anxious. i fear you becoming too anxious will cause you to die of heart explode)

ANYWAY. the highest MY heart wate ever was, was 160, and even that Shocked And Disturbed Others whom heard of it. a normal resting heart rate should be like, in the double digits. 98 or higher does NOT count as double digits. 98 or 99 is nor normal.

do not panic. do not worry, do not die of heart explode

(i'm planning to turn this post into a poem- can you tell?)

i cant move my neck .

go find a new cardiologist. doctors are like bad boyfriend, u should drop that like its HOT!!! if doctor not do anything, new doctor! kaboom!

or go back to first cardiologist and say "salt didn't do shit you madwoman." or madman. i dont discriminate <3

the font on my screen is starting to look like those fonts for dyslexia (does this make sense to anyone but me????)

love u/ . <# please god see a doctor. and don't stop seeing doctors. you are very sick and this is dire. i fear cardiact arrest . that is simply put scienctifically speaking- too fucking high.

don't panic.

[biteyourbetters]

some thoughts on the wandering earth II (spoilers under cut)

too bloody long

visuals: spectacular. plot: eh, dont think about it too hard. robots: not enough, but i liked the ones that existed. moon: kaboomed.

loved the worldbuilding though. they should have made a pseudo-documentary instead of a blockbuster.

hey, what was up with liu peiqiang locking the door? we're shown han duoduo repeatedly kicking your ass, she's clearly better than you at kicking ass yet you just leave her behind? are you an idiot? it's one thing if she were weaker, but she's supposedly stronger? could have at least shown a scene of him kicking her ass to justify this dumb fuck decision. was her stunt double too expensive or something? lmao

i don't know anything about the chinese mental health system, but i think sending tu hengyu to a grief counselor would have prevented at least one of the many disasters in this movie. blah blah insert justification about how grief is love and love is part of human condition and that love both saved them in the end and damned them in the first place.

someone was sobbing so fucking loudly at han duoduo's cancer scenes, i actually thought it was part of the movie at first. unfortunately, that means the only emotion i associate with that part of the movie is 'kinda annoyed'. ...now that i think about it, they might not have been crying. im going to say they were crying for my own piece of mind.

lots of reviewers complaining about the chinese military propaganda. i mean, yeah, but it's still got nothing on top gun maverick lmao. for real though, it's not even that bad. yall are just too used to american military propaganda.

some funny bits. i especially liked the gag about the russian bomb triggers having no safety, just two triggers. and that bit in the first act where liu peiqiang is told 'don't fall in love', sees a woman kick someone's ass and immediately imagines their marriage. really was too bad her badassery was to make her an especially sexy lamp instead of an actual character. /hj

bit in the movie where a fossil of a broken and healed femur was shown, and a story was told about human civilisation being about supporting each other or w/e. sorry, man, i get that it was supposed to be emotional and heartwarming, but all i could think of was this fucking site.

a bit that did make emotional though, was when liu peiqiang is wandering around the moon all confused and everyone waves him off bc they're too busy and his comm's broken. he doesn't know what the fuck is going on! everyone's on a suicide mission and he has no idea! i don't think there's any emotion worse to end a life on than confusion, except maybe fear. when the man contacted by zhang peng has to tap on liu peiqiang's helmet several times, that was when i realised, 'oh man, this guy is concussed as fuck'.

did they. ever explain who it was that organised the attack in 2044. pretty sure it was the digital lifers but like. they never expanded on it.

oh, ok, we're doing time travel now. hope they explain all the cuts to the cameras in the next movie.

apparently there were post credits. i chose the 9pm showing like an idiot bc i somehow did not register that the movie would be 3 fucking hours long, and had to bolt out of the cinema in order to not miss the last bus home. hope they're online somewhere.

read the synopsis for the first movie to jog my memory, and realised that i retained absolutely nothing from when i actually watched it. this will happen again when i watch the third movie.

[twstgameplay]

i'm planning on buying the anime nyc bundle for the ssr key! but i'm having trouble picking.

so i have dorm leona and riddle, and i know dorm azul is like, THE pick to complete the big three. so i know azul will be super useful.

but i have all of the cards to make the strongest meta team for cosmic, *except* for dorm rook (and of course, bday Lilia, but I'll be pulling for him when he comes along). I have dorm epel (5/5), dorm vil (5/10), dorm leona (10/10).

So I'm wondering if it'd be smarter to pick dorm rook with this bundle and maybe if i have the gems pull for azul for the anniversary, or should i do it the other way around?

Hm, that is a dilly of a pickle.

I personally think you can do no wrong here. Either would be a good bet. I'll try to lay out a few pros for both to hopefully help sway you one way or the other.

AZUL

Yes, he's one of the big three for his double water and his heal! He's useful in so many teams, as Mod Zuzu shows in this post.

Since EN finally has defense tests now, not only is Azul useful in fire and omni basic, he's also a boon in fire and omni defense. You can also use him for neutral damage (for the heal) in water and cosmic defense.

You can set him as your buddy during Joint Exams, and see the coins roll in from your in-game friends using him, especially if there is a fire or omni defense.

ROOK

Rook is powerful. He is a cannon. Especially with Lilia's boost, and his M1 activated. Kaboom.

He (and that team) is useful in not only flora basic, but fire basic, cosmic, and omni basic tests.

Setting him as your buddy during Joint Exams will also benefit your friends (and get you coins), especially if there is flora, cosmic, or omni basic.

In the end, looking at the things I've written here, the question you might want to ask yourself is: "Do I want to boost my fire defense score right now or do I want to boost my flora basic score?" Just remember that Birthday Lilia is about a month away, and Anniversary is about two months!

We also have Joint Exams coming up soon too, which should be a lineup of

Fire defense (good for Azul)

Water basic (good for Azul)

Flora defense

Cosmic defense (good for Azul)

Omni basic (good for Azul and Rook)

Good luck!

~🐬

[bbnibini]

Ludi Harpastum by a Bunch of Sleepless Boomers (aka Grand Klee Auto)

Since Klee's banner is approaching, I find it relevant to share me and my friends' scenarios with their own Klees (gdi I'm the only one without bomb child ;v;)

Ludi Harpastum= Grand Klee Auto

--> Help Klee escape Solitary Confinement and make her bombs

--> Sucrose as the "sweet flower dealer"; Albedo as a neutral party (with loose lips). He wants to help but he really should learn more tact. Basically, telling Albedo means at some point, Jean would caught wind of your plans aka game over.

---> Making deals with Sucrose will give you the ingredients to make Klee's favourite item, "Fishy Toast" which is like the event's in game currency

More Fishy toast=Klee is happy

If Klee is happy, she can make more bombs. If she makes more bombs...KABOOM!

---> Kaeya is a wild card. Either he is going to be your most reliable ally or most formidable foe. If he is your ally, he keeps Jean distracted so you can make more bombs with Klee. If he is your enemy, he snitches on you and sabotages your bomb workshop.

To get Kaeya to be on your side, you need to give him Dandelion Wine, which can be exchanged with Sucrose. (Be careful though! As Venti also likes it and has a tendency to take it from you.)

---> The more you develop your workshop, the more variety of bombs you will get, which attracts more allies like:

Ludi Harpastum Allies

Tartaglia= Went to Ludi Harpastum with Teucer. If you give him the "Fishy bomb", you can unlock him as an ally.

Childe gives you Mora, which can be exchanged with Sucrose to make more Fishy toast. More Fishy toast= more kaboom. Teucer also helps in making bombs so having the brothers around will triple your bomb production.

Diluc= Can be a double edged sword as an ally. Same mechanics as Childe and will also help you if Kaeya ever betrays you in the game. However, if you recruit Childe, he will also turn against you.

Kaeya= The best ally in the game (and also the worst). Dandelion Wine has a high exchange rate so he is recommended to be recruited late game when you either have Childe or Diluc.

Sucrose= more of a shopkeeper where you can exchange several items or unlock new allies. Giving her sweet flowers will unlock more items in her shop

Timmie= The first unlockable ally in the game. Has pretty basic functions. Think the sunflower in Plants vs. Zombie. He sends his pigeons to gather sweet flowers for Sucrose.

Diona= Best and most consistent ally to have. Having her would prevent you from buying the wine from the shop as she can make you her own cocktails to please Kaeya. However, if you want to keep her as an ally, it's best to recruit Childe instead as your resident ATM since she doesn't synchronise well with Diluc.

Qiqi= Having Qiqi would increase Bomb production. Her special skill would also keep Venti away from stealing the Dandelion Wine in the shop.

And finally.... we have

The Enemies:

Jean= The final boss. Any encounters with her would result in GAME OVER.

Lisa= Jean's right-hand woman. However, if you give her some Cecilias in the shop, she will not catch you as long as she's not with Jean

(Insert some Knights here that I forgot the names)

These are what I remembered what we had in our conversations haha. We also have "Assassin's KleeD" which was pretty hilarious too. Hope you enjoyed reading as we enjoyed memeing the hell out of this. I totally did not post this publicly to be my catalyst for Klee's banner oh no-

[slaygentford]

i saw your post about wuthering heights and i didn't get anything. i read it once as a teenager and didn't like it but the way you talk about it makes me wanna read it again i want the madness too, how do you get it??

hi hello. firstly I big recommend rereading shit you read in high school bc half the time if you didn't like something it’s just because it was taught bad. the other half the time when you don’t like something it’s Hemingway. in which case. there is nothing to be done. 

the thing about wuthering heights is it is about: misery. it is about: a descent into hell. it is about: renouncing heaven to sit in hell with the only person who truly sees you. it is quite literally about that last one. so you gotta go into it the way you gotta go into all gothic lit, which is like, this is about wretched people. this is about being just fucking. wretched. and if thats NOT the vibe for you then simplee it is not; gothic lit can come off a little much to our modern sensibilities where everything is like, oh let’s write a five hundred page novel about a man picking his fucking nose at a bus stop and it’s great literature. so there’s some suspension of disbelief involved, depending on the kind of reader you are. 

the other selling point to me is like.... I mean wuthering heights is like massive, huge, and the text is, like, depthless. some of the cool shit it does for me is like

- its got the same number of chapters as cantos within a canticle in the inferno, very much on purpose: this is a descent, make no mistake about it  - doubling to the point it’s no longer doubling and it’s just a fucking like, hall of funhouse mirrors. this is like. holy shit. like, the first time we see “Cathy” it’s Cathy’s daughter, who is identical to Cathy. second encounter with Cathy is like 

like. and then we get Cathy’s voice, then Cathy’s ghost, and THEN finally Cathy herself, but only through the gauze of memory. like this is taking the typical gothic doubling thing and being like, kaboom. ya know. this book is so fucking haunted. and then lay THAT on top of the way Cathy and Heathcliff themselves are doubles  - Heathcliff’s race up for grabs which makes for some great “post”colonial readings - very particularly the way that Cathy and Heathcliff know each other. where Cathy’s telling Isabella like, this man will crush you like a bird’s egg, and how she’s also talking about herself there, cuz theyre the same person. just the way that like... idk if you have noticed this but I'm obsessed with how when you know someone really well you know all their faults so intimately and you actually sometimes love those faults, see them in yourself. like she’s saying how Heathcliff is so awful but she’s actually saying, and these are the reasons why I love him. like the ownership of each other there. and that’s just.  - this

like. and then she DOES. LIKE?  

[vintagesimstress]

V. Adding missing body parts / Frankenmeshing / Finishing touches

(Previous: IV. The most useful meshing tools in Blender)

I know I promised to finally talk about uv maps, but I realised I forgot to cover some tiny, but important meshing-related details. Originally I hoped I could mention them in the parts dedicated to uvs or clones, but somehow they didn't properly fit into any of those topics, so I decided it'd be better to make a separate post about them. I probably will have to re-mention some of this stuff later though, so sorry in advance for anything being redundant!

1) Adding missing body parts

I mentioned a long time ago that my dress, being made from a top, comes without legs. It's not a problem, as it's supposed to be floor-length anyway – but what if it wasn't? What if it reached e.g. only until knees? Or what if you accidentally (or not) deleted/messed up some other body parts, like hands or neck, and wanted to replace them?

To fix this, first of all we need to get the right body meshes from S4S.

It's almost the same steps as in the very beginning, when we were getting the top which we used as a base for the dress. Open S4S, choose 'Create 3D mesh' under CAS and then click the CAS button. Just as back then, you'll see a list of all EA CAS assets existing in your game.

To find meshes of different body parts, type 'nude' in the box in the top right corner. No worries, it's The Sims, everything is safe for work (a.k.a. Barbie-style).

Now you have to select whatever it is that you need. Let's stick to the idea of a knee-length dress in need of some legs. Click the female naked bottom (if you're not sure which one is which, hover over the picture; it'll tell you if it's yf – young female – or ym - young male) and then hit 'Next'.

You'll be asked to name your package, but – just like in case of the top – it completely doesn't matter. It's only the mesh we want – once it's extracted, we can delete the package file.

Now that the package is created, you can access its data. Again, just like in case of the top: go to 'Meshes' and click the 'Export mesh' button. Make sure NOT to change the LOD!

You can close S4S now – that was all we needed from it.

Before we go back to our mesh, I suggest we open the newly extracted legs' mesh, select all the vertices (a) and remove doubles (w, choose from the list). By default each mesh coming straight from S4S is cut in certain places (I guess wherever there are cuts in the uv-1?) - and in case of a naked body such cuts are most definitely not needed.

Save and close.

Now, open the mesh which needs the legs. For this tutorial, I cut off the bottom part of the dress I was making. As you can see, it's very legless.

Go to Object Mode (tab), open the 'File' menu and choose 'Append'.

Now you have to find your extracted legs' mesh. However, you'll notice that just selecting the right blend file isn't enough – when you click it, it opens like a normal folder, making you choose from more specific contents of the blend file/package. Here comes the tricky and very important part: the mesh data sits in the 'Object' folder, NOT in 'Mesh'. When you open the 'Object' folder, you'll find inside the file you're looking for: s4studio_mesh_1. Select it and click 'Append from Library'.

Kaboom!

As you're going to join the legs with your mesh anyway, you can safely delete the bone_shape.001 and rig.001. You don't need them and they'll just be making your blend file bigger. It's only the mesh that's necessary.

Now we need to edit the appended legs by deleting the parts which we don't need. Select the legs' mesh, go to edit mode, turn on the x-ray and select (b) everything which will be hidden underneath the skirt. Leave some margin though!

Delete (x) the selected vertices and go back to object mode.

As you can see, right now your dress and the legs are separate from each other – in other words, they are separate cuts. And while some (...many...) EA meshes include several cuts, they are never cut in this way. We need to join them.

Select the legs' mesh on the right and, while holding shift, the dress' mesh. Then simply press ctrl+j. That's all! The legs are where they're supposed to be.

In case you're interested, if you want to do the opposite – turn a part of your mesh into a new cut – select that part, press p and choose 'selection' from the drop-down menu.

Of course, appending isn't limited to saving your dresses from leglessness. As mentioned, the same principle can be used for adding any other body parts... Or even clothes.

2) Frankenmeshing

There's not much I can say to it right now, without going into cuts, weights and uv maps, but if you want to try it, that's your starting point. You extract a couple of meshes from S4S, open one of them and then append the other ones. Depending on what it is that you're frankenmeshing, it might take some time to clean the meshes (i.e. delete the unwanted vertices). In most cases it's also very important to connect the vertices of the separate parts once you join the cuts! If you combine top A with sleeves B, or top C with skirt D, you have to merge the vertices where those parts connect – otherwise it'll at the very least look weird, and that's only a best case scenario.

3) Closing the mesh

I kind of mentioned this one last time, but I guess it won't hurt to explain it once again, this time properly. Whether your dress is short or super long, if you look at it from the bottom, you'll see that it's... Empty. Transparent. Unfinished. The legs – or feet – are ending apruptly, as if cut by a saw. We don't want to see it. That's why we need to close it.

(I remember when I was just learning to mesh I found this part super weird. I thought I'd rather not cut the legs, but duplicate the skirt and flip direction, to make it have both sides, just like in real life. While this idea is not completely ridiculous and can even be useful in certain cases (e.g. when you're making a half-transparent skirt – if it's see-through, you do need the legs to actually be underneath), there are two big reasons why you shouldn't do it: one, it might be very hard to get rid of any clipping, and two, the polycount could potentially kill you. Just in case you're having similar thoughts right now :) )

Select the lowest row of vertices. It might be a bit tricky now that the legs are appended – you might want to separate them into a new cut for a second, just so that they wouldn't be getting in your way. Or just hide them with h. Another easy method is selecting the row on the uv map, but we haven't covered this one yet, so let's stick to separating legs for now. Turn the x-ray on and, while in front view, select the row.

As mentioned last time, this lowest row is supposed to be a sharp edge, so before you proceed, mark it as sharp (ctrl+e)!

Turn the camera a bit to see what's going on underneath. Now extrude the vertices (e) and scale them (s). Click wherever.

As you can see, the new, extruded circle is selected now. Press alt + m to merge those vertices and, from the drop-down menu, select 'at center'.

Personally I don't like it when the bottom of a dress is so completely flat, so I move that middle point a bit higher, along the z axis (g, z). That's also one of the reasons why I left that leg margin earlier. I guess you don't have to do it, but I think it makes it look a bit more natural.

If you separated the legs, you can once again adjoin them to the main mesh now.

It's very important to close any open ends your mesh might have. The bottom of your dress/skirt, cuffs, necklines, sleeves if they're short – everything must be closed, otherwise you'll notice it in the game, sooner or later. It's fine if you don't do it now – you might want to wait until you're done with uvs and weights – but eventually you have to do it. Just for a little crack, here's a screenshot I took while testing one of my dresses. It's floor-length, so it shouldn't matter if it's closed or not, right?

That’s how it ends.

***

The long-awaited uvs tutorial will follow very soon, unless I suddenly get some urgent project to work on. I know how badly it's needed, so it's scheduled now, like any normal job-related stuff. And as hard as it might be to believe, I'm actually quite good at meeting deadlines if they're set in stone – I might not enjoy it, but I get stuff done on time. Stay tuned!

(Next: VI a. UV_0)

[radramblog]

More Inevitable Hot Takes- MTG Announcement Day edition

I only have myself to blame for this one. I forgot this was upcoming, and I went and blathered about dumb preview cards from most of a month ago anyway. Well, now I’ve got to spend two posts in one week talking about Magic cards. Woe is me?

Once a year, WoTC has a big day where they announce, like, everything for the next year’s releases. And with the picking up speed of set releases, there’s a lot there, and thereby I have a lot to talk about.

To be clear, I’ve deliberately avoided Magic Twitter and Magic Reddit for these announcements. Tis a silly pair of places.

Standard Sets 2022

In order:

Kamigawa Neon Dynasty is very concerning, as one of the people who’s a genuine big fan of the original Kamigawa block. The thing is, I like Kamigawa, with it’s spirits and artwork and samurai and the like. I like cyberpunk, with the aesthetic and the themes and the music. I’m not sure I’m going to like the two combined. We better see some fucking weird-ass spirits, and I’ll only be slightly annoyed if they’re cyber-ghosts or whatnot as long as they maintain that bomb-ass art design.

We have a new plane and a set to go with it, which is cool and nice. Urban Fantasy is a thing Ravnica already did, to be honest, but if I had to guess, Streets of New Capenna is going to be a much more low-fantasy, noir-y take on the genre. I think I saw something about Azra returning, which is cool. That one on the key art looks…very Ob Nixilis-y, though.

And then we’re going back to Dominaria and actually doing The Brother’s War, again? I think Urza block was about that arc, though the Dominaria United set might be like, before all that nonsense. They might have given details, I wouldn’t have seen them, I’m going based on someone’s TL;DR. I’m excited to finally have a Mishra card that isn’t the Time Spiral one, though I’m concerned about how they’re going to make an Urza and a Mishra that are both powerful enough for the iconic characters but not so powerful as to be dominant in the Standard they’ll be legal in.

So, so much Universes Beyond

I think the four Warhammer 40k precon decks is kind of exactly what I was hoping we were going to get for that particular crossover. Just enough to get fans happy and make some fun new cards, not enough that there’s a ridiculous influx of Tyranids into Magic’s annals. I’d be interested to see what regular Magic cards translate well into these decks, seeing as they’ll have to be 40k-ified.

I feel similarly about the Baldur’s gate Commander draft set. I remember fans of that particular D&D spinoff were frustrated with the lack of representation in AFR (I think Minsk was like the only thing they got), so now they have a whole set to work with. Ultimately, D&D is now already, and interminably a part of Magic’s multiverse, and more from those particular realms isn’t going to make anything super fucky. Also, Commander Legends was cool as hell, and this is going to be another one of those, so that’s a plus.

And…a Lord of the Rings set? Like, a full set? I’m assuming whatever got them 40K also got them rights to tabletop LOTR, seeing as Games Workshop has run the LOTR tabletop game for a while. Like with D&D, the medium-high fantasy of LOTR crosses over pretty well into Magic, so I’m not worried about that kind of cockup making things Feel Weird. I’m a little confused about the legality of the set, though, seeing as it’s in Arena, but not Standard legal, but it is Modern legal? What and why and what about Pioneer or Historic?

Secret Lairs

Few hits, few misses, though I remember seeing spoilers from a few that aren’t on this list. Presumably, the Art Series: Johannes Voss, Thomas M. Baxa, and Purrfection and Math is for Blockers were announced separately? Anyway.

Hits: The Kamigawa Ink cards look drop-dead gorgeous, holy shit. Add in the fact that I already play two of those cards and that the others are all cards I like? Might have to get that one. Math is for Blockers is a fun lineup though I don’t…really get the theme? Both Artist Series look incredible, though I’m not huge on the card lineups.

Misses: PURRFECTION would be great if it wasn’t apparently a convention exclusive and also if the art of cats were on cat cards. It’s cute as fuck, but eh. The old-format walkers are frustrating, but I’m not as against them as a lot of people are- like they’re ugly, but not worth throwing a fucking fit over. I weep for any new player staring one of these down, especially if they barely understand planeswalkers in the first place and/or haven’t seen one of these particular ones before. Also, the art is kinda just ugly.

And then there’s the Universes Beyond ones. Fortnite and Street Fighter, both with new cards that will eventually have regular versions (which leads me to wonder if TWD will do the same). There’s a clear attempt here to hit the zoomers and the boomers in the community, though the former probably won’t have the money to afford the Secret Lair if they’re burning all their cash on V-Bucks. It’s…not a great look? Like I’m not opposed to cartoony art styles (the Goblins Kaboom SL looked great!) but Fortnite’s in particular looks like dogshit in my eyes and I’m not looking forward to seeing it in a Magic frame. Street Fighter I’m more excited for, because I like Street Fighter, and because they confirmed Chun-Li is going to have multikicker which is kind of perfect. Obviously we’re going to have to see the cards, but in one case I’m dreading that, and in the other I’m welcoming it.

Other Cards

We have more Challenger Decks, for Pioneer this time. The decklists are already out, and they look pretty solid! The Challenger Decks have been pretty cool previously, a really solid set of lists that only needed a bit of tweaking to be FNM-viable, but they were held back by the fact that they were often released not long before rotation. With Pioneer being a non-rotating format, this is going to be great for getting people into the format.

Another Double Masters set is…egh. It’s another thing that’s not for me, I can’t afford to whale on that shit. With shipping and conversion those packs end up ludicrously expensive in Perth, and I’m pretty sure I only got to play with one the first time. Also, this one is going to have all the collectable nonsense of 2020/21 Magic, which is going to be A Lot.

And another Jumpstart. Eh. Don’t cock the shipping on this one up and it’ll probably be okay.

Commander Collection Black is here, and the list is already out. The Green one ended up way overpriced, but at least in this case the cards are all super playable. Actually, they were for Green too, I think, but hey there’s a Deluge reprint and a flip Lilli, so. I kinda miss the Signature Spellbook series already, though.

Finally, Unfinity. Another Un-Set. Unstable was a fucking incredible set, both on a comedic level and as one of the sickest draft formats in a long time, so I’m excited to see that one followed up. On the other hand, Unsanctioned kind of landed with a dull thud. Apparently though, they got some of the folks from LRR (among others) to help write names and flavour text for this set, and I love those guys to death, so I can at least guarantee the comedy element will be present for this one.

Other stuff?

Well we have a date for the Netflix series. I have a hard time believing it’s actually happening. When I first started playing was around when rumours and announcements were still happening regarding a full-on movie, and that basically didn’t go anywhere. So it’s a little surprising to have a solid, actual time frame for Magic Story Content in Video Form. I haven’t kept with the story for a fair bit at this point (since Dominaria, tbh), so I’ve got no idea if it’s been any good, and as to whether this will be any good. Considering apparently Gideon’s in the lead, my hopes aren’t huge.

The only other thing is Pins. I like Pins. I have a bunch of them on my bag. I would like to get more Magic pins. So this is good.

And that, I think, is the sum total of it. These announcements always end up with a combination of excitement, trepidation, and dread, but I think this is leading more on the positive end of that spectrum. There’s still way too many fucking sets, but I think that is largely at Hasbro’s feet. The money machine must keep churning, after all. Maybe someday Magic and WoTC as a whole will be able to unshackle themselves from that particular constraint, but I am not holding my breath.

[ogcosmicfragment]

The hypocrisy and double standard have gotten grosser in this fandom. But playing the victim after you went into someone’s post to antagonize them but when they provided a logical response that left you looking stupid you scream bullies? All opinions are allowed but don’t YOU dare have an opinion too and share it on your own blog, eh? Hypocrisy at its finest, indeed.

I'm sorry but, which tv series are you watching?

A) hypocrisy, anon... if you only fucking knew how wrong is the tree you came barking at.. but don't you worry, everything in its own time;

B) me going to other's post to antagonize them.. maybe you got some wires tangled up because it was my friend's posts who's we're being antagonized. And lemme get another thing straight... person X does blogs' rounds expressing diverging opinions is okay, whoop whoop, freedom of speech and all.. person Y (lol, me) expresses a third diverging opinion under one (1) post... KABOOM. Antagonizing, bullying, double standards, ganging up. You see now how the double standard you're talking about is very well in place but on the reverse?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

C) logical response that left me looking stupid.. mmmh, debatable. May I redirect you to your own line of "double standards"? Like, you know, an exchange where person X&Y are involved but for X is okay to say whatever.. while Y by giving their point of view is stupid. Just because Y doesn't belong to your little circle🤪;

D) if there's one thing I never did is play victim.. the fact alone that every time I express my opinion I'm being called a bully should've given you an inkling?! Maybe?! Nothing?! Oh well. It's been two years.. and for the life of me I still can't fucking understand WHY DA FUCK there's this differentiation about people's opinions. If it was really true that X's opinion has the same weight as Y's.. then why da fuck Y is being called a bully for expressing it? And there's more... if this fandom was truly made of love, respect and all that fantastic made up fantasies .. then why I can't even defend myself from being called a bully without being called "stupid who wants to play victim in return"? I wasn't even the one to start stirring shit in the first place. But okay?! I guess? Every fandom needs bad guys inside the fandom, you know... not openly antis, but sometimes someone just needs insiders to blame or offend when people don't agree with you or what you're saying on a specific topic.

E) honestly can't understand what you mean by the "don't you dare have an opinion and share it on your own blog".. because if you're like.. "accusing" me of just going around other blogs trying to stir shit instead of taking it on my blog.. lemme ask you, how long have you been here?! I have always always always talked openly on my blog about anything, anytime, and I never shied away from healthy discussions. Have always "admonished" anons that over the years have come to my blog trying to tell me what I was supposed to say and how I was supposed to write it.

While you may think my opinion are hypocritical, allow me to say this ask is the most nonsensical I've ever received. Like, you didn't manage to get one... ONE thing right. Have a wonderful day, anon. 👋🏼

[rantingdinguslady]

I went to Quora after a long time. It's so much worse than before. I thought KH used to be worse. Now there's a whole gang all totally convinced they are right and spend their time bullying and mocking others. And they are supported by s8 apologists. Never visiting it again.

Hello Nonny

Yup. These people along with KH have literally formed a clique where they praise each other’s wank and think they are so smart that they don’t need to learn or see or think better ever again. They have formed a “space”/clique  which is a new modified form of older Blog system quora had and as an internet group buddy they post their own answers, reblog and invite other answers which obviously matches and kowtows with what they want to believe and analyse asoiaf as.

If they think Dany being compared to Aragorn is unacceptable, they would write answer or reblog answer for it even if it means the first argument is “because she is a women” upvoted by that Weill guy who peddles himself as a feminist( what kind of feminist is he ?? buck stops when applicable to women characters he doesn’t like?? OK buddy) . They go around and encourage by commenting on other people ‘ s answer when they align even slightly with what they like to hear and soon enough the new upcoming or older writers who want to be part of the “space” which has thousands of followers deliberately or uncosciously starts to mimic what they like to reblog.

Ironically they named that space “GoT/Asoiaf” space but they never ‘share” ( their version of reblog) or write anything which runs contrary to what they like to hear. KH is there, TD, Bertolli, Weill etc. Since these people are or where Top Writers in their topic or other topic, especially KH who is the oldest and practically the founder of asoiaf fandom in that website, her voice would always take precedence over anyone else. No one cares if they are being rude, hypocritical or misogynistic or even stalkish ( like i referenced a meme once mentioning “susan” and lo and behold Susan B jumps in comments asking if thats her?? she never followed me , i was just a 200 follower small time writer back then so she along with KH , who once started a fight over interpretation of a scene on my comments with others, and others definitely stalk literally everyone who is against them to check everyone out) . Since their following chain is massive, i don’t think they ever get even BNBR slap despite the fact KH definitely is a habitual fight picker . 

I wouldn’t recommend it until after TWOW is released. I believe in that book Daenerys will be proven once and for all that she is Azor Ahai/PTWP and the fate of KL would be over with ( which i also think would not be on her really just like i think the whole “dark night of the soul” won’t depend completely on culpability on dubious crimes like Arya with Stoneheart, Sansa with murder of Robin etc. I think Cersei is the one who kabooms KL because the Aerys and Wildfire foreshadowing would otherwise be absolutely pointless in her chapters . Dany would probably watch horrified ) . There would be no denial over her status as the messiah or her nadir being about a villain. They could twist her narrative as it because it ended in a cliffhanger just about the Nadir stage of Hero’s Journey where anything could happen next in ADWD. With TWOW there would be no wiggle room.

So then if one wants people could hopefully go there and laugh at their antics of backpeddling and excuse making. I am looking forward it because i have actually seen real time how once antis are proven wrong they hide or delete account of double down on their clownery ( like rey/skys from SW) . So quora will have some breathing space. 

[neverwatchedonepiece]

618: "Raid! An Assassin from Dressrosa!"

The whole squad catch up at the end of arc wrap party!

Back from the trip, so it’s business as usual again. Will do one episode a post until I get back into the old routine. Will also catch up with all replies this week. The reason I didn’t post yesterday was because I am way too excited about the RE2 remake and watched my first ever Twitch stream. If anyone has any recommendations for good streamers playing the RE2 remake, please pass them on. :)

As for this episode of OP, it follows on from 617 but feels even less like an ending, as Oda is introducing new characters directly and also some new contexts via Caesar’s DDM stream to the brokers. More than ever, Punk Hazard now feels like a prelude of plots to come (this is a good thing because I cannot handle endings).

Plus, I’m sensing another *wild ride* coming up. Haven’t had the joy since Water 7′s Sea Train, so looking forward to that truck busting out of Punk Hazard. :D

Best Captain

The action picked up where 617 left off. We had a lovely shot of Caesar tanking that massive double punch. But this time, we saw Caesar flying down a rather long tunnel, unconscious and out of sight.

The whole “out of sight” thing would turn out to be... not ideal.

Caesar’s Live-Stream DDM picked up Caesar getting his ass handed to him. The Brokers were disturbed by the turn of events. “What the hell? Is this what they call a public experiment? He kicked Caesar’s ass!” one shouted. Tamago turned to Pekoms and warned that, “Mom should hear about this right away.” 

Another guy in an Abraham Lincoln hat said to a nearby messenger, “Joker is going to take action. Let Jack know about this.” When the messenger said, “Are you sure? It’s not going to be pretty,” he replied, “I think they’ve made an alliance. Let the world know. This is not just an underground problem anymore.”

That one was interesting. I have no idea who Jack is, but he seems a cranky, “head guy” type too. Whoever top hat guy is was important enough to be allowed to deal with plot exposition. (Unless he’s filler, in which case....)  One potential theory: a Jack is a type of card, as is the Joker. Might Jack be connected to Joker? Who knows? Well, you guys do, but that goes without saying.

But the fact the mess on Punk Hazard has been broadcast all over the New World does mean the whole “shaking up the New World” part of Law’s plan was a huge success. Everyone is now after their blood. Love it.

To be honest, I hope Law has a crew to return to after this because I am still wondering where the hell they have been hiding all this time.

At least we know where the other Strawhats are. Usopp played another blinder. He has gone through some major but subtle development this arc. Up in the Secret Room, Usopp took charge of the control panel and communications. He could see the other Strawhats running for cover to the R Building. He spotted Chopper and Mocha first, then Nami and the others. He gave them directions and encouragement. Excellent. 

Not only that, Usopp also is also, if I am not mistaken, about to act as a leader to directionless, crestfallen, used and abused Minions. One guy lamented, “I can’t believe Master was such an awful person. Who will we trust now?”

Usopp. That’s who. The guy who is about to lead you out of the crumbling lab building - though only after he ensures everyone else is on the right track. Not only does Usopp earn major brave points, he also earns leadership points.

I also like how the other Strawhats can act as leaders to other people when Luffy is not around. Nami guided all the kids out. Sanji took charge of the G5 guys. Brook dragged Kinemon out of the gas when the idiot went running in, thinking his spirit would carry him through anything (nope) and Chopper calmed him down and told him what was happening. And Usopp guided them all.

What a guy.

The only two he didn’t help out were Law and Smoker. They already had another plan in the works.

Smoker Has Been Watching Too Much Marie Kondo

Just when Tashigi was wondering whether Smoker had prevailed in his battle with Vergo, he rocked up to Building R with Law! Three cheers for the existence of “the enemy of my enemy is my (temporary) friend!”

Between them, they dragged a SAD truck, the kind, Law said, that had been used to transport the lucrative substance off Punk Hazard. Law’s plan was to let everyone jump on and they would ride that truck off into the sunset together. Good plan, I thought. Since that building is crumbling faster than an overdunked biscuit, it’s gonna be a wild ride.

When they entered Building R, Luffy was there to greet them. “Tra-guy! Smokey! Didn’t expect you to come from that way!”

Of course, Law is a pragmatist. Concerned about his plan, he glanced round and noticed an important factor was missing. 

“Where’s Caesar?” he asked Luffy.

“I kicked his ass and he got blown that way. How far did he go?”

Law was not pleased. “Our plan was to kidnap him!”

“But I don’t wanna catch that bastard anymore.”

I could hear Law’s internal sigh of despair. “That was the plan whether you like it or not. What are you going to do if he runs?”

“Who cares about that jerk!” Luffy scoffed.

“You think you can just change a plan as you like. I shouldn’t have trusted you. I need to get him.”

At this point, I don’t think Law regretted entering an alliance with the Strawhats. He was maybe regretting trusting Luffy with the whole kidnap part, as it is a delicate operation requiring laying aside morals and grudges for a sneakier purpose. That’s not Luffy’s strong point. He is a straightforward, loyal and faithful kind of guy.

That’s why when Nami looked back and asked Luffy if he thought Chopper, Usopp and Brook were alright, Luffy stared straight ahead and said, determinedly, “I’m sure they’ll get here.”

Meanwhile, outside the lab a couple of others had managed to get there too.

Well, they got close.

Two New Challengers Enter!

Baby 5 and Buffalo were back, sent by Doflamingo to retrieve Caesar. Baby was still mad about the whole fiance situation. Apparently, Doflamingo killed her “sweet fiance” by burning down an entire town. The weirdly hilarious thing? He has done this eight times.

Reminds me of that line from Chicago: “he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times.”

But did this guy have it coming?

Yeah....... he kinda did. 

Buffalo (who must have eaten a DF because he is a freaking plane right now) said that Doflamingo did it because he loves Baby like a sister, so he doesn’t begrudge destroying an entire town. Why is Doflamingo like this? Turns out Baby has a hard time saying no to guys she thinks “need her”. She lends too much money and has major 98 million debt. The last guy who proposed to her was majorly skeezy and only after Baby for what he could get out of her. So Doflamingo must have taken him out, just like the others.

That was interesting because, in a very weird, brutal way, Doflamingo is looking out for his useful crew members. You guys have mentioned that Doflamingo was inspired cartels or the mafia. Now I can see it. There’s the “young Master” term they all use to address him, the older people working for him, and now he loves Baby “like a sister.” 

But still, this guy is a villain, so it’ll be a business type family. If you cross him, there’s no way he’d let you away with it. I expect Law knows this and that’s why he was so careful.

While flying over Punk Hazard, they noticed right away that the Shinokuni gas was a problem. Buffalo used a “typhoon-like power” to blow away some of the clouds. This revealed a SAD tanker docked at port. Since they were travelling when Luffy kicked Caesar’s ass on TV, they didn’t know what had happened. They decided to wait until Caesar, Monet and Vergo escaped.

Then there was a loud whoosh, a flash, and a sparkling KABOOM as Caesar tore through the air and slammed into the tanker.

An unorthodox entry, but I liked it. Maybe knock a point off for grace and finesse, but the speed was impressive.

As soon as I saw Caesar sprawled on the dock, I facepalmed. “Luffy,” I thought, “you have just handed them Caesar!”

And that is exactly what Doflamingo thought too.

Buffalo checked in with the boss and was given a new set of orders.

“Joker! This is Buffalo from Punk Hazard. We’ve just arrived but Master Caesar was blown out of the building, injured.”

Doflamingo was shocked, but only for a split second. The guy recovers quickly from setbacks. “Recover Caesar immediately and come back to Dressrosa.”

“Okay,” Buffalo answered. “We’ll recover Caesar. What about Monet and Vergo?”

I didn’t hear Doflamingo’s answer, but Baby said, “There must be a reason. Do as he says.”

I’m guessing Doflamingo has cut Vergo and Monet loose. They are on their own now. Damn, this guy is ruthless. Even Vergo, who served him so faithfully for decades is not immune. The message here is: if you are no longer useful, you are done.

Luckily for Caesar, he’s one of the most useful guys in the OPverse, as Doflamingo himself admitted in a private, villainous monologue.

“Hey, Squirts. Luck is on *my* side. As long as I have Caesar in my custody, he can create SAD for me.”

And this was why Law was so irritated that Luffy had let Caesar out of his sight.

This could go one of two ways. Caesar will slip away from the Strawhat/Heart Pirates alliance and they will be forced to storm Dressrosa to retrieve him. Or the certain robotic someone who has just shrieked back into the plot will save their asses and help them kidnap Caesar. Then Doflamingo will go after them directly.

This is getting good! :D

Franky is back: freshly waxed and ready to fire.

[virgocity]

I know you're sick of BTS and in need of a breaking but i just wanna talk about the fact that the pressure is so startlingly huge for them that apparently they actually considered disbanding : ( Jin mentioned it in their MAMA speech this year that they almost did but reconsidered and decided not to give up and keep going. I feel terrible for them and i hope they get a chance to take a break and recover because it's clear this is destroying them in ways we probably don't even know about.

I’m going to go on a rare double-rant, anon, and I thank you for allowing me the opportunity to do so. Neither rant is directed at you so please don’t take offense. I’ve just had A Day and I have a lot to say on the subject. 

Rant #1 is about my BTS hiatus. I feel like a lot of my followers don’t get it and think that I hate BTS now and I actually feel like I’m gonna get shit if/when I reblog them lately and that annoys the shit out of me. I felt self-conscious reblogging BTS the last few days. IMAGINE? Feeling weird about reblogging BTS on my own blog. Don’t get it twisted -- I still fucking love BTS. They were my most-played artist of the year with 127 hours of streaming. They were my bias group for a minute. I’ve seen them live twice. They are my heart and soul and words cannot describe how much I care for them or how proud I am of them. 

But it’s been THREE YEARS of nonstop BTS. 24/7. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram. They are everywhere all the time. A large majority of their fans are shitty people. (I don’t want to hear “NOT ALL ARMYS!!!” because you know the fucking difference and you know exactly which fans I mean. )They constantly tell other K-Pop stans how their faves don’t measure up to BTS. They constantly go onto posts/videos by other artists to try and promote BTS. They are racist, vile, ignorant little kids who sit online and spew hate to anyone not bowing at BTS’ feet and mass-inundate us all with media we don’t need and I’m sick of it. 

BTS is so idealized and so heavily promoted and placed on such a high pedastal that they don’t even seem like my 7 boys anymore -- they just feel like THAT K-Pop band. And I don’t want that. I don’t want the media frenzy and the horrible faction of ARMY brats to color my opinion of BTS when they mean so, so fucking much to me. So I mass-unfollowed on here and on Twitter so I could see less of them. I still listen to their music every day and I am still going to write for them and occasionally reblog gifs or posts about them and I don’t want to have to feel WEIRD about it. My hiatus from BTS is more about my LOVE for BTS than anything else and I don’t want it to be misunderstood as anything else.

Now. More to the point. I did see the MAMA speech and it was Jin that made me tear up. When I first saw a text post on my dash (before seeing the speech) mention disbandment, I was confused because you only hear about K-Pop bands disabanding in the face of financial hardships. It’s the bands who don’t win on music shows or sell albums that disband because it’s too expensive to keep them around. But BTS have been on FIRE for two years and they’re literally BLEEDING money and I was very confused until I heard the speech. And then my heart broke. Because one could argue that BTS was a fluke.

They were a hip-hop group with a “bulletproof” concept who came from a nobody label. Their first song had baby-faced Park Jimin flashing his abs and spinning in a circle, and they put a MUZZLE on J-Hope. SO MANY GUN SOUND EFFECTS. There was no way they were ever going to be huge... but they’re BTS. They are 7 of the hardest working men on the planet and they love each other, and what they do, so much that they EXPLODED. And rightfully so. But they exploded SO QUICKLY and seemingly out of nowhere. They’d been doing great since HYYH1 but then KABOOM. Last year, things went INSANE. And that much fame and success and accolade and attention SO QUICKLY would fuck with anybody. It happened to Justin Bieber. It happened to One Direction. And now we know that it happened with BTS.

But we already knew that. We saw in Burn The Stage how much Jimin struggles with his self-image. We heard in RM and Yoongi’s mixtape lyrics just how burdened they are and how much they hurt. But it was seeing Jin cry that really cut me because that kid doesn’t cry. He’s always the big, strong hyung and the mature adult and I don’t know, hearing him talk like that and seeing those tears stream down his face hurt me. 

I don’t even want a BTS break just for me. I want it for BTS. They HAVE NOT STOPPED. They have not stopped moving. They have not taken a break in so fucking long. They need it. They are tired. Not just their bodies but their hearts and their minds and their souls. I am begging BigHit and KNetz and the UNIVERSE to let them rest. There is so much good K-Pop out there right now. We’re good. They can take a break. They can duck out of the spotlight for a minute. Take a month. Take three months. Take six. Take a whole fucking year.

We have lost too many artists to the stress of their careers and the demons they face within themselves. The anniversary of our own Kim Jonghyun’s suicide is in 4 days. 

I DON’T CARE ABOUT ALBUM SALES. I DON’T CARE ABOUT WINS. I DON’T CARE ABOUT RECORDS. I DON’T CARE ABOUT TOURS. I DON’T CARE ABOUT ANY OF IT. I DON’T WANT BTS TO BE PERFECT. I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HEALTHY. I JUST WANT THEM TO BE ALIVE.

The pressure they’re under simply by being in the spotlight is immense but they put so much pressure on THEMSELVES (specifically Jimin and J-Hope) that I am worried to death about them. Jimin in particular has been deteriorating before our eyes for well over a year. It was clear as day in Burn The Stage. His internal monologue is not kind. He makes himself sick over the mistakes he makes. He has looked so sad during so much of the last tour and you can hear it in his voice how much he’s struggling. He doesn’t deserve that. They need a break. A real break. No cameras. No concerts. Time to themselves, time with their families, time with the people they love, time to date, time to see friends, time to have experiences that exist outside the realm of superstardom. They NEED it. 

I know so many BTS fans feel the same way but genuinely, how the FUCK do we communicate it to BigHit and to the boys? Mamamoo fans threatened to boycott the girls’ concert if RBW didn’t give them a break and RBW listened and postponed the show. Someone please tell me how we, as fans, can give BTS the support they need, to tell them it’s okay not to be perfect, and that it’s okay to go away for a little while if it means that they’ll come back healthy and stay with us forever? Because while last night’s win was amazing and validating and reason to celebrate, it just reminded me that the boys are frayed, that they’re running on fumes, and my heart aches.

I am so happy that they reconsidered and that they stayed together and that disbandment is no longer anywhere on their radar but it makes you wonder. What’s more important? BTS as an actively-promoting band, or Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Kim Namjoon, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung and Jeon Jungkook, 7 extremely special young men who have given us EVERYTHING they have and might be running out of things to give? Because if it truly is a choice, if we’re ever being asked to choose between BTS’ success and the health and happiness of the members, I’ll choose the boys over the brand every single time.

[mahalidael]

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Why is that show called invincible anyway . Every post I've seen abt it just confirms that the dude is, in fact, extremely vincible

16 notes • Posted 2021-05-26 16:09:07 GMT

#4

my predictions for the remainder of 2021

april: a minecraft youtuber gets arrested for arson (either a hermitcrafter or a b-list dream smp member; someone notable enough that minecraft ppl go nuts abt it but you have no idea who this is)

may: someone tries to sell clear covid masks. like the generic blue masks but clear. everyone is so used to the normal ones that it flops, but the spotify ads are so aggressive that they end up as a meme

june: a new strain of doomer appears. they believe that the world is only getting worse and the only humane thing to do is to euthanize humanity. people are divided on whether or not to take them seriously or not bc it all sounds very supervillainy and they dont actually do anything. they are jokingly dubbed "kaboomers"

july: mcdonald's profits are in freefall, so as a desperate publicity stunt, they have donald trump cut the ribbon on a new location in trump tower. this does not help and joe biden refuses to comment

august: twitter lets trump make a new account. seemingly emboldened by mcdonald's "endorsement," trump immediately claims that he's still the president and tries to pass a bunch of executive orders via twitter. his account is removed again within hours. mcdonald's finally issues an apology

september: back to school commercials are trying to sell masks with cartoon characters on them, and one of them has a boy wearing a barbie mask. paul joseph watson jumps up alex jones's ass about calling the mask "adorable" but he... didnt, he called it "deplorable" but rather than admit that he misheard the statement, pjw just accuses infowars of "liberal doublethink" and quits. he is spotted 2 weeks later trying to hack it as a minecraft youtuber and is ratioed straight into hell

october: hackers attack krysten sinema and leak that she's a scientologist. tumblr users debate the morality of this action for like a week and then completely forget about it

november: the kaboomers suddenly reappear on the public consciousness when they try to evangelize to the right. unfortunately, most of the people they pick up are qanon washouts who hear the already dubiously moral "we should mercy kill the human race" and interpret it as "we should be allowed to kill whoever we want." there is a spike in newsworthy crime. this is met with disapproval by the og kaboomers for being "inefficient"

december: mike pence claims that he saw an ufo crash and catch fire there before the feds showed up and kicked him out. plot twist: it was a van full of meth. double twist: it was his van

18 notes • Posted 2021-03-12 02:37:35 GMT

#3

it is true, we shall be monsters

hey, everybody, i wrote a fic for @invisobang about dani and some clone boys! it's fun, and by fun i mean horrifying! if you also want to be horrified, check it out on the ao3 link below!

i worked with the lovely @this-is-z-art-blog and @hashtag-art who both made art for this! check it out either in the ao3 upload or here!

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”

Dani wakes up for the first time. Dani sets out into the world on her own. Here's everything that happens in between.

33,393 words. Content warnings: body horror, medical experimentation, Vlad being a shit parent, terminal and chronic illness.

20 notes • Posted 2021-08-28 12:03:45 GMT

#2

“Can I roll insight to see if this god is lying to me?” is such a raw quote on its own, which makes it hysterical that the context is Fabian trying to figure out whether a pirate almost shat in his mouth or not

60 notes • Posted 2021-04-15 19:18:44 GMT

#1

the magnus archives... was a workplace comedy

61 notes • Posted 2021-03-26 17:40:01 GMT

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