#loone rambles

[dravikso]

after that iterator headcanon post, thinking about what designs i'm going to make for the iterators with no canonised designs, i came to the conclusion: "oh shit, unparalleled innocence WOULD have neochrome antennae".

nightmare to draw but i'm mentally patting myself on the back so hard . i have had no clue how to imagine UI for so long

at the same time scolding myself for not whacking that on one of my own fan characters smh

[loone-spam]

I just realised that this is something I can ask of tumblr now. See, I feel as though brain freeze (strong headache caused by eating very cold food, such as ice cream) is treated like a universal phenomenon, but I've never experienced brain freeze - at most maybe my teeth will hurt a tiny bit, and even that can be pretty easily avoided if i just don't bite it like an animal (... admittedly easier said than done). I don't think anyone in my family has experienced it either.

So, do you experience brain freeze? I'm curious to know how widespread it is and whether or not it's overblown. Feel free to add any additional info that may be relevant in the tags.

[phoenixkaptain]

I love HuaLian and WeiLan because they are both powerful ghost kings who stalk their beloved god, said god being the only person who can control them in any way. Which sucks for everyone else, because when asked to control their feral ghost king, both gods just go “nah, he’s fine” and do not stop any of the bad behaviour everyone was praying they would stop.

Also, both Shen Wei and Hua Cheng have a creepy location where they keep an unhealthy amount of images of their beloved.

I love them.

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Hey, have I mentioned that J-Dog and I are playing Wizard101?

Everybody meet my Diviner, Melody Hexbolt!

Her personality is if you took a stereotypical Mean Girl Academic Beta Bitch trope and then instead of giving her an Alpha Bitch to follow around, you gave her a sarcastic loser nerd (that’d be J-Dog’s Wizard, Benny Feignrite)!

We haven’t sufficiently traumatized them yet, but we’ll see how the kids are feeling at the end of Arc 1 and if that merits a more serious redesign.

Benny is up next! (No I haven’t forgot about OC-tober, it’s just that the Wizard Game is consuming my every waking. . .and sleeping thought).

Oh also @givemethesleep it's not lore but I think you might enjoy.

[dogshit-enchantment]

>opens tumblr

>first post I see is "if you ship [most popular ship for the series that is known to be kinda toxic] you're so gross and need to find god"

>instant head ache

[cinnbar-bun]

I stg I need to make a proper Mary post she’s literally all I think about I love my stupid daughter I put into situations for the symbolism 🙏

[moonfurthetemmie]

you will never believe what happened again

this is the second funkiest swap au i've made. the first funkiest remains hidden in dms and they haven't even gotten their names yet, but their secrecy is probably for the best right now since the current name is fucking beechswapswap and i can't take it seriously like that

anyway have some heroforge and names of the newest one while i figure out what the fuck is going on with some of them. I have major details, but minor ones are still being worked out.

i also need a better au name but that's not quite so important

Rayonnant (Jet) (name source)

rayonnant is about to sock someone. it may or may not be OG obsidian. it's far more likely that it's not, but it took me less than a day to decided they'd starting fighting 2 minutes after meeting and put each other in a body cast and learn absolutely nothing from that. so it's totally og obsidian.

he's rather violent. I was going to say 'violent for a Jet alt' but no he's just Violent. up there with obsidian himself. which is part of why i think they're going to try to kill each other the first time they meet.

he will let. one (1) person call him 'Ray'. and that person is shrike. and only when they're alone. Baroque was probably allowed at one point, but either has had that privileged revoked or is just too afraid to say it at all now since Rayonnant gets reeaally mad about anyone hearing that nickname

Baroque (Dark) (that also came from architecture, though 'Baroque' is a descriptor/name for several other things)

someone had to help me with the color for baroque's jacket. and it took me an age just to figure out what kind of a pose I wanted him to have. but here he is. he's got more anxiety than dark but is better at hiding it. slightly. just slightly.

His soul is in the same half-n-half positivity/corruption state that og Jade's is in. so he's still blonde, but has the greyblue/pale yellow eyes that og Dark, a full corrupt, has.

the blonde is reminding me of…something. i can envision it in my head but i have no idea what it's called or how to describe it.

Shrike (Obsidian)

Shrike's pose also killed me. I didn't want him to try to rest his elbow on the goddam SPIKES on his GLOVES so i turned that hand over. i swapped the arm positions, thinking it'd make more visual sense that way, and was still unhappy with it but absolutely did not want to try again so he's staying like that. we suffer together.

please also observe the full scars and the tattoo + Magic Marking Bullshit that the coat hid. probably the only time any version of Obsidian what would have a bird tattoo. *technically*, its a swallow. as far as I'm concerned though it's a shrike.

'why is he shirtless' you'll never guess. you'll never ever guess why. the obsidian alt being shirtless shall be a mystery for the ages. (joking)

coughs also there was another obsidian alt that i, at one point, genderbent and thought it would be in-character for her to just have an open jacket and a bra. then remembered that her original male counterpart is completely covered up, and that just felt so ungirlboss of me. so. um. just in case. y'know. for. for science reasons. tbh tho i kinda think a genderbent shrike would wear a shirt. no idea why (genuine)

…oh my god wait his entire vibe reminds me of Lear (theater kid au) (not the actual Shakespeare character). god dammit (laughing)

Lark (Jade)

dont ask me what lark's pose is. all four of them were fighting me on poses. he's just concerned okay. for Baroque.

prebby stars. so prebby. the star + galaxy decals they added (ssomewhat) recently are so cool..........

he's a full corrupt, too, like OG Dark

Hoatzin (Quartz) (name source)

hoatzin was slapped together in like 15 minutes because i needed to go to bed but kept saying 'okay let me just do this one part' and then suddenly i had a whole entire Woman.

also she hasn't taken those braids out in months, at best, and if and when she ever does that bit of hair is gonna be sooooooooo wavy

she is also have THE worst time out of everyone on the team. sorry hoatzin.

Starling (Zuli)

Starling has wrist-mounted blades for melee, a spear for when he wants a little bit of distance but is still in melee range, and a gun.

The closest to Hoatzin, but that's not really saying much. considering he just happens to stay furthest away from her biggest problem whenever he can, and she can't feel emotions at all so she doesn't really care about him all that much.

maybe it'll change tho. who knows.

Cassowary/'Cass' (Mercury)

cass needs some help but tbf so does everyone else. he's just. gonna have a harder time getting out of there than the rest of the team. not that he realizes it.

Took me an age and a day to figure out what he and Thrush's backstories were, but I have it now. The brass knuckles helped. also a science sans alt got his hands on those AND a semi-automatic pistol? it's so funny to me. sci with a gun AND brass fucking knuckles to crack bone. And he's a hell of a lot stronger than he looks. At least in his fighting gear; if he's wearing a T-shirt you become notably less surprised by his strength.

just be glad it wasn't the foot-long handheld claw things.

His glasses are technically goggles. He doesn't trust normal glasses not to fall off while he's fighting. i don't really do a lot of hand to hand combat (or any combat at all outside of video games), but i wouldn't trust my glasses either.

FASCINATING scar also. wonder where that came from. totally not the guy manipulating him ahahaha that'd be crazy

not that anyone will be able to tell, but i just did a Save As of Francisco and all i did to adjust the body was add more muscle. this is useless information but you have it anyway

Thrush (Jasper)

he's doing his best. unlike the khakis. that's the adjusted version of the color they called khaki. we don't get nice things with the colors sometimes.

he's fucking strong. he looks strong but do you have any idea how heavy an axe that size is???? he could chuck you across the room. he should use all those muscles to hug and smooch me. Huh who said that

He used to be very friendly, but. you don't really feel like being friendly when your boss is an evil overlord blackmailing you, so you have to go terrorize people when he says to. with his face all over the fucking news now, though, he uh. he doesn't really. want to try to talk to people. because he doesn't want to start trouble. but i mean other than that he's super sweet! (said with an unconvincing smile)

he's good friends with Cass in particular, though he and Starling get along pretty well too. Most of the time. Starling's...surprisingly yappy.

Loon (Zircon)

that is the least awkward pose I could get him. he's got a second shoe i just wanted to shoe robot leg.

Left (viewer's right) leg amputated above the knee. Left eye no longer functional due to injury, and was getting really nasty and infected so they had to take it out entirely. Several minor injuries. Pretty nasty magic blast to right leg. Really, really nasty magic blast right to the chest from two whole directions. TLDR he's goddamn lucky he's alive.

The worst of them (chest + left leg, but mostly chest) cause him pain pretty regularly, and will do so...pretty much the rest of his life. The chest one is really easy to aggravate. He was deemed too disabled by his superiors and is now a retired veteran house husband.

Astrapia (Koroit) (name source)

theoretically, she has a tattoo of a caduceus on her left arm. heroforge doesn't have that tho.

girl gets, understandably, irritated when she tells the others to rest (or take your goddamn meds or just. stretch. so you don't pull your muscles like that again. cass.) and no one listens. she goes "do you think i'm here to hang out???? I was brought here to be the doctor and none of you are even listening to me. sit the fuck down." and they all go ",,,sorry astrapia" and they straighten up. which is good because she was about to prescribe them electroshock therapy (she'd have threatened it, but not actually do it)

also bonus astrapia in a suit because i'm gay and women is suits are one of my favorite things ever

in unrelated news (eh. it's tangential) i, a person with boobs, forgot that when they who have titties want to cross their arms, they either have to put them ON TOP OF or UNDERNEATH said titties. one of which isn't possible in heroforge. i'll let you guess which. anyway this made me realize i've only actually done the arm crossing thing on flat- or mostly flat-chested characters? which feels weird

Eostrix (Paraiba) (name source)

guess who paraiba swapped with

Since she comes from a fantasy-type AU I wanted that to be reflected in both outfits; at least a little bit? And here we are. prisoners do not get shoe rights apparently. at least Eostrix is having a better time than Zuli was. still needs to get the FUCK out

Petrel (Silver)

i need an excuse for how and why still, but those are vials of positivity. and Petrel is, reasonably, quite terrified of Rayonnant finding them. They don't know if he knows about the vials, but they'd like to keep him ignorant if they can.

Still; on the off chance that he does know about them, she's doing her best to stay hidden. Never hurts. Especially when you were friends with someone who was last seen with Rayonnant, and he and your girlfriend mutual friend mysteriously vanished afterwards.

[creppersfunpalooza]

hi finally fixed my color profile on procreate so

drew what would be the silliest trio. like they kill people sure but they’re silly so it’s ok….. god i love them. i don’t really talk about callum because he’s not relevant to anything or one but he’s very fun. i like him a lot. i forgive him. for all the crimes.

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Goddammit I'm giggling and kicking my feet too hard to write. I am a goddamn disaster but I can't stop smiling!!

[tedzyrotten]

something dreamy about jdog’s naturally downward sloping eyebrows

[calibrationneeded]

Existential nihilist who loves searching for meaning to things despite the belief that it doesn’t actually mean anything at all, the same way when you stop believing in magic when you grow up but still search for meaning in the stars, still make wishes on eyelashes, and still step over cracks as to not break your moms back. Existential nihilist, who despite believing there isn’t a meaning, still enjoys the idea of it, because that’s what makes us human, and it’s harmless and fun. Maybe that in itself is the magic, maybe that’s the meaning.

[dravikso]

noted that people do in fact fw long fur narinder

I wasn't expecting that post to blow up in the way it did ty for all the support guys

I do feel the need to add a disclaimer since a lot of people followed me for that specific drawing that while I DO have plans to draw more narinder in the future (he IS my second favourite) I am experiencing a category 7 adhd event over leshy and you're going to be seeing waaay more of the worm than the cat

[loone-spam]

Heyy so. I have a question. When there's some piece of media talking about autistic people, trying to relay the experience to a NT audience, one of the main talking points is always how autistic people 'can't filter out sounds', and how they just hear everything (I am aware this is an overgeneralisation, but this is often how media represents it and that's why I ask). Now, I never really gave this much thought. These videos tend to represent this by playing a bunch of overlapping sound effects at a loud volume, but the more i think about it... what exactly is it supposed to sound like when you /do/ filter out sounds? Because as far as i was always concerned hearing everything and having trouble understanding people in anything other than a quiet room was the norm, which is something that has only been challenged for me within the last 1-2 years. Like is "normal" supposed to just be... silence except for when you're concentrating on a sound??? What exactly is the comparison point supposed to be against "being unable to filter out background sounds"?

Can someone fill me in on how processing of sounds is 'supposed' to work? Ideally from personal experience. These sorts of videos make assumptions about the viewer and it makes it much harder to find information on what the inverse of what they're describing is

[outpost-31]

High as fuck and I'm so scared of amazing world of gumball

[one-joe-spoopy]

Not to be a crazy theorizer but I think that Lydia Hoffman might be in pt2 bc her voice is credited at the end of the transcript also the poster reminds me of the one for bird's eye view also I might be slightly out of my mind right now

[visualbrainrot]

Thinking is so strange. Like I just sit in absolute silence and have a conversation. But the conversation is with myself and no one else here’s it. Sometimes nothing even prompts the conversation, it’s just born into the silence by a single longing thought that bounces around in my brain. Which I then go on to contemplate, debate and rationalise all within my own mind. Which is even a real place just like a metaphorical existence within my brain. But yet I do it every day and it’s totally normal. Like even just the idea of thought is so random. The fact that people can think int their own voices and other peoples voices, but your not actually thinking in those voices you just tell ur brain u are and that how u interpret it. Can someone please explain to me how thought works. Because I’ve been thinking on the idea of thought all day it’s just mind boggling to me that I can do this. Like rationally, it would make more sense if there was a little alien inside of me feeding me thoughts. But not its just my consciousness. I’m gobsmacked, flabbergasted, chimneydazzled. Am I the only one that feels this way. That the idea of thought is strange and the fact that I think this os because my internal monologue supplied the thought into my brain.

Like please???