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hey remember how i said i might disappear? yeah i lied
i'm so sick of just wallowing. it's not getting me anywhere. wallowing without action doesn't do anything
i'm going to try and reblog more resources/fund links/general punk shit because i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. obviously i'm going to find time for myself to process but i also want to DO something with all of this.
so, basically, disregard all previous statements, i am going to be a menace to society if it sedates me.
#ecopunk#solarpunk#fuck trump#fuck capitalism#save your books#save your cds#make your own library#where do we go from here#up. we go up.
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I have this small, deeply personal headcanon that after his grandmother's passing, Alhaitham's home was so unbearably quiet that he started--just barely, just one or two words--to speak out loud to her as if she was still there.
"I've been accepted to the Akademiya, Grandmother."
"I passed my promotion exams."
"I debated with Haravatat's sage."
Just that, and quiet again.
But one day, it's: "I met someone strange."
"He keeps showing up when I'm trying to study."
"We don't agree on anything. Still..."
"I made a friend."
"Today, Kaveh and I were researching--"
"It's already dark. I didn't realize we spent so long in Razan Garden. Kaveh wanted to hear about my article--"
"He's going to be furious when I tell him the whole point for his portion of the lecture is based on a false predicate--"
The house where his grandmother used to be gets a little louder again; the noise lasts a little longer.
Until one day, when there's no words at all.
One day, when there's just the sound of a single sob, and then a long, long silence.
#genshin impact#alhaitham#kaveh#haikaveh#kavetham#sometimes you wanna laugh#and sometimes you wanna think about things that make you ache inside#Alhaitham is a miracle of a man#because if my ONLY friend told me they regretted ever befriending me in the first place#I don't know if I'd be able to come back from that one#okay okay but enough of the angst; hear me out#here's the second half of the headcanon#Alhaitham comes home from work#their house is eerily quiet#normally Kaveh's humming to himself while he cleans#cursing his clients and his own high standards in equal measure#or banging away on his prototypes#with Mehrak beeping along for moral support#but today there's just a quiet murmur from the library#Alhaitham looks in#Kaveh is at the desk#he's fiddling with the small portrait of Alhaitham's grandmother#the one Alhaitham packed away when he moved into the home they were awarded together#and in the quiet#Kaveh is saying “Well the resemblance might be uncanny but you look like a warmer sort.”#“I can tell you wouldn't tease me for forgetting Khwarizmi's third principle.”#“Would you believe what your own grandson says sometimes--he actually claimed--”#and if--muffled against the door sill--there's the barest hiccup#that sounds like a single little sob dipped gold in joy#well no one will ever hear it but Alhaitham anyway
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In June, Tell Me Why is free on steam. It's the only "big game" I can think of with a transgender protagonist.
Twins Tyler and Alison return to their small town in Alaska to clear out and sell their childhood home. In doing so, they realize that some memories of their past don't add up, and they set out to figure out what truly happened the night their mother died.
Gameplay is similar to Life is Strange, being from the same developers and all. Which in this case means, lots of walking around, lots of talking, rather slow gameplay, and a slightly supernatural gimmick for the protagonists.
When I played it, I found the graphics really pretty, didn't run into any bugs, and completed the game with all achievements in about 16 hours. It contains lots of dark topics in the past they discover, including violence and death, but the ending is always hopeful.
You can find the game's FAQ on the official website, which answers (with spoilers, obviously) how some sensitive topics are handled, if you are concerned.
(I would suggest staying away from the discussion boards and probably reviews. It's mostly negativity, transphobia, and jokes about the Backstreet Boys that were old the first time they came up.)
#salad-games#if you already own chapter 1 from a previous promo#and the full game doesn't show up#apparently removing it from your library and readding it fixes that#just make sure before removing that the game is actually still free 😅
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i love u book translators ❤️
#i make a point to read english books in english because i'm mostly fluent anyway so reading a translation feels weird#but when i grab a dutch translation because the library doesn't have the original or because the original isn't an english language book it#just kinda hits different. also happens sometimes when i watch a show with dutch subs on and suddenly i'll think the dialogue is snappier#or the jokes are suddenly funnier. probably the same principle as the thing where saying 'i love you' in english feels vastly different from#saying it in your own language
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Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?
#Like I wanna see what her figure out modern technology so bad#Bro is probably stunned by like microwaves and ovens and fridges and all that#imagine her saying#“How has the fire nation the smartest and most technologically advanced of all the four nations#not yet figured out the limitless potential of being able to reheat your food thus making it edible and enjoyable once again?!”#wanna see her throw an iPhone at a wall because she received a text message#and has no idea why the magical black box is all of a sudden directly communicating with her#Like the potential for comedy is endless#But also more seriously what would she make of our modern social and political problems?#And our art?#Imagine she if listened to our music? Or Watched our movies and TV shows or read our literature#it’s said in canon that she enjoyed reading a lot as a young child and spent a lot of time combing over the royal palace’s archives#Imagine her stumbling upon a modern library#She’s always been a lover of history#so I can just imagine with piles of books trying to cram our entire recorded history like she’s revising for an exam#What kinds of introspections and reflections would she have#learning about all the horrible atrocities we committed throughout history in the name of a culture or an individual or an idea?#How would she compare and contrast it all to her own upbringing and everything she was taught about her world?#Oh and the internet of course#I feel like she would go into a comatose state discovering the internet#avatar the last airbender#atla#atla au#azula#princess azula#atla azula
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vector portrait for digital imaging class of RGB!! hey go read The Property of Hate if you haven’t already btw it’s an amazing comic by @modmad that i’ve been hotglued to since my junior year of high school.
big thank you to mod for giving their permission/blessing to wrestle with this horrible tv bastard in adobe illustrator for the express purpose of shilling him and this comic to my unsuspecting class <3
(edit: god okay pls click for fullscreen. hogy shit)
#tpoh#the property of hate#rgb#modmad#there’s a lot more i was planning to do w this but bleeeegggggjhhhh#i don’t own a laptop so i have to do all my hw for this class in the library + i live off-campus + i had office hours that day#7 hours in the library fighting with adobe illustrator on 5 hours of sleep and no food in my body said No You’re Done Now Actually#i have another project coming up that uses this one in it so i’m gonna get to make a diptych of this motherfucker next >:3#tpoh’s been eating my brain again as of late holy hell the hyperfixation clobbered me#what the fuck is my art tag. do i even have an art tag#my art#nox art#there. perfectly serviceable >:p#btw the working file name for this was actually horribletvbastard.ai so . now you know that i guess#yes the halo effect is intentional. no i don’t no how to use adobe illustrate. further questions may be taken outside#anyway THANKS MOD I LOVE YOUR BOY AND YOUR COMIC AND YOUR ART <33333
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oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,
#haven’t been able to write in days so i am posting instead. forgive me.#it’s just so. like. okay pallas has all of the material power here that’s not a question they’ve got much stronger magic they#know how the library works they’re directly placed in a mentorship role at the beginning re agnes she depends on them#for everything.#but also#pallas is very much Not Doing Well mentally (<- understatement of the century) and is pathologically incapable of processing their own#emotions related to this AT ALL. and in the process of trying very very hard to get to Know pallas (so pallas will Like her so pallas will#want to keep her alive) agnes kind of comes to understand a lot of pallas’s issues even better than pallas does and pallas starts to depend#on her for emotional support in a way they NEVER have with anyone else.#and pallas’s ability to show vulnerability has been soooo wrecked beyond belief that to them doing things like sharing part#of their backstory and being visibily hurt around someone is tantamount to placing a knife in someone’s hand and#then circling all of their weak points with a giant red marker while going ‘HEY STAB HERE’#so in their mind by doing this they’re giving agnes an IMMENSE amount of power over them like enough to kill them dead even though very#little else has changed about their dynamic. so pallas believes that they’re standing on much more equal ground then they really are#and agnes partly believes it too she thinks that by seeing this much of how broken down pallas is she’s finally found the balance in their#relationship she’s finally found a way to make it stable. and yeah. to some extent this is true!#pallas DOES listen to agnes more than any other person agnes IS the first person in years to understand them this much pallas’s dependence#on her for their mental wellbeing DOES give her some measure of power over them. but that power is given out on pallas’s terms is the thing#whether they’re aware of that or not. agnes wouldn’t have anything if pallas didn’t actively choose to be vulnerable with her there’d be#no way she’d learn about anything no way she’d get to play this role in their life#they believe that this thing is much more equal much more sustainable than it really is (pallas especially) and they’re#literally all each other have#grabs your face are you listening THEYRE ALL EACH OTHER HAVE IN THIS PLACE THEYRE BOTH IN SUCH HORRIFIC SITUATIONS AND THEY R EATING#EACHOTGER TO SURVIVE!!!!#head in fucking hands#wip: ghost story#pallas and agnes
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Binah likes those star-shaped hard candies. not because they taste particularly good- they're mostly sugar, anyways- but because you always seem so delighted when you give one to her. your voice singing "Binah, look! It's a little star!" is enough for her to face any day, no matter how deep the well and how loud the voices.
#project moon#lobotomy corporation#library of ruina#binah#binah lobcorp#binah library of ruina#she begins to appreciate items shaped like stars#if you get her a jar of the candy she'll place it right next to the jar of paper stars you made for her#which she's also beginning to make on her own time#it soothes everything#occasionally she'll drop a little star in your hands and just watch you smile happily
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the great art of family, lies, and debt
#art#fan art#video games#psychonauts#gristol malik#playlist#//#psychonauts 2 spoilers#eye strain#as usual this is in chronological order if you can listen to it that way#if a song from your playlist is on here it means it passed my Lyric Evaluation Test#generally how i make my playlists#is a mix of my own library and my favorites that others have found to culminate into the ultimate one for me personally#and i tweak stuff every now and then to make sure things fit to me so watch out for that#my personal favorite is ''oh beautiful town'' hence it being the title#fun fact but i had to go to a waterpark like within a day of psychonauts 2 coming out#and i was thinking about people say fitting him the entire time i've really had it in mind since day 1
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a mind palace’s (unasked for) renovations [DO NOT TAG AS SHIP]
bonus under the cut:
white mushroom more like “butlershroom.”
anyway. yep! my headcanon is that the mushroom series of heartless were essentially like early versions of ansem. experiments to see if creating a heartless with a will of its own were even possible. (the mushrooms just wanna play charades and go on nice walks! they wont steal your heart because their instincts tell em’ to! they’ll only snatch it if they feel like it <3) how can you make an “immortal” successor if they cant even understand the research you left for them? so thats why they were created!
#beep boop you want fries with that#kingdom hearts#re:kh#ansem#riku#ansem you cant slutspread infront of the children …#<- in his defense he wasn’t expecting riku to walk in#i feel like ansem craves attention but also wants to be left alone but also wants someone to talk to but also#he loves to ponder about his own existentialism but as soon as hes asked about it he changes the subject#hes been alone for so long and was never allowed to make friends with anyone that he doesn’t understand friendship#perhaps riku will be the one to show him#in short. yes ansem will be getting a redemption arc of sorts. but hes going to be really annoying about it.#his arrogance was his downfall and he loves being an annoying little shit <3#love youuuu 🥰🥰🥰#ansem infodumping but it’s about human experimentation and not a novel series from the hollow bastion library#is a thought thats really funny to me.#also if youre confused about ansem still being in rikus heart. in my rewrite he doesnt ‘die’ in kh2#the blast of light only causes ansem to go dormant until in my dream drop rewrite#��something’ happens (im not telling) that causes him to reawaken and he attempts to take control again. which ends poorly for ansem#(riku defeats him again)#riku wont get rid of ansem. because he is tied to riku’s darkness. riku claims ansem is going to have to live with this. and that hes#already accepted this fact. ansem just needs to do the same.#so ansem begrudgingly resigns to his fate. but this isnt enough for riku. he wants to do something he never thought he would ever do#maybe his friends are rubbing off on him but. riku wants to see if maybe….. they could be friends? perhaps? this isnt going to work …#.. is it?#you’re grasping for straws here boy. give it up.
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okay now for a bunch of scribbles im not finishing
#first three are from the fact that i just got blacksteeple castle and instead of playing the game i felt like scribbling#next one is just me trying to get used to drawing ariana shes a lot of fun to draw + tiny interceptor oc idea thingsidk#then what i like to call#leaving your shitty bird husband for his much hotter deer ex wife#which is from the fact that in the room you first meet braixen in theres a book anathea owned calling how to deal with domestic abuse.#wwhy is that there and wow i hate vitus so bad#then idk venilla (?) sleeping headcanon or something#the erin and melia hug from the library that definitely did not make me tear up seeing the first time#melia and her fucked up bird based on gold pokespe and her and patience taking a nap#and finally idk an idea of melia being a shiny hunter with insane luck always in a no pokemon au#which would take place in the normal guys with weird animals au from. i don’t remember when#okayvthere explained everything#anyways i love rhat loser glitter girl and her goofy pokemon
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i hate her so much.
#you'd think explicitly telling her something multiple times over multiple months would mean anything#but no#and now i'm stuck in the car bc she drove us here after going to the library instead of going home#it's just like what's the point of being an adult if you can't make your own decisions#i hate her i hate her i hate her#it's literally so stupid but it's just another way that she constantly doesn't listen and think about anyone else#it's just disrespectful
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I love thriftbooks so much. My gf and I finally got a new bookshelf for our bedroom and there's a lot of extra space on it so I decided to try and fill in the gaps in my collection of warrior cats books from my childhood. I needed 8 books in total and I just found ALL of them in "very good" condition for a total of only $35 (with free shipping!)
#if you dont care whether your books are pre-owned they are SO good. everything is so affordable#sometimes you can even get 'like new' condition where its been read before but you cant even tell#or even brand new ones that have never even been read once#personally i like the 'very good' condition for most of my books#like if im buying a copy of a book i read as a kid for example then like i want it to match the other books i have from my childhood#also the reason i dont have these specific warrior cats books in the first place is bc i borrowed them from the library#so it kinda feels right to buy them pre-owned now#also sometimes it gives me this really cool feeling of like being connected to someone ive never met#like i got my books about judaism from thriftbooks and one of them in particular was in 'good' condition#(which allows for minimal writing on the pages)#and theres multiple places throughout the book where the previous owner underlined certain lines in pencil#and its just really cool to me to see what lines the previous person who read this book thought were important#it makes me pause and consider those lines to figure out if theyre important to me too#im also looking into getting more copies of the locked tomb series (specifically i want a hardcover and paperback of each book)#but i wanted them new so i originally went to b&n bc i know its rare for thriftbooks to have books in 'new' condition#even with b&n having a sale tho they we SO expensive#just buying gtn in hardback was gonna cost almost as much as i paid thriftbooks for all of my warrior cats books combined#so i went to check if thriftbooks happened to have any 'new' condition copies of them and they do!!#they have 'new' copies of each of the books in the format i want them in! shouldve checked there first lol#rambling
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the GREAT PATREON SMUSH
I was going to make an advertisement for this with bright colors and maybe animated sparkles but 1) I hate making ads and 2) we are all so exhausted by bright ads vying for our brain chemicals that I just don’t want to do that to you anymore!!!! I’m TIRED of things grabbing for my attention in an unending assault on my senses and I’m sure you are too!!!!!!!
if you’ve been doom-scrolling and need a break (a nice beverage, a stretch of the legs, etc.), take this as a sign to do so now. if you’ve got the energy for a little reading, though, and want to learn about my work - keep going!
ANYWAYS I’ll get to the point: ALL of my patreon benefits are now available to the lowest ($3) tier.
in fact, there ARE no other tiers anymore. they’re gone! scrunched! smunshed! stirred up all together into one big super tier soup of everything I offer now and will offer in the future!
everyone now gets:
over 100 4k desktop wallpapers
early access/wips
25% discounts on prints
livestream voice chat
art votes & art suggestions
commission slots
and access to the Art Grotto discord, a friendly and chill server with a small community of creative folks. we share art, writing, pets, memes, and also come up with fun art ideas together! 🌈
why am I smushing the tiers and giving up the higher pledge amounts?!
because capitalism sucks, we’re in a recession, and I’m lucky enough to have a full-time job that allows me to make art without being reliant on Patreon income. anyone who has sat in on one of my livestreams knows that I try to be a calming force in an often-chaotic world, and that I’m always looking for ways to make art more accessible to everyone. I want my Patreon to be a place where I can give back to those who are supporting me in this mission!
this tier smush is just the start of how I hope to transform this space! I have a bunch of fun ideas about stuff I want to do in the future, so keep an eye out for more announcements like this 👁
that’s all!!!! thank you if you’ve read this far, and here’s the link to the Patreon if any of this interested you!
#auropost#i'm moving more and more away from trying to create bite-sized flashy info posts lately#like i don't want to be a brand!!!! i'm not a commercial!!!#and YOU are not an audience/consumer/target market/number on a screen!!#you're a PERSON!!!!!!#we're all people and this is a conversation#i'm de-programming a lot of social media brain rot right now#i don't care if that means that people scroll past my text posts#because i don't want to resort to assaulting your eyeballs with a graphic#we've all seen enough for a lifetime. for multiple lifetimes#so i'm trying to do something else#anyways my secret ideas for new patreon benefits involve discord livestreams of all the tech travel i've been doing lately#and then my ultimate patreon benefit goal is to go on a tour of public libraries in patrons' states#where i can host public xr art classes with people in person!!!#i'm already gonna be doing this in la soon so if success keeps up i want to take it on the road#with a focus on doing classes for discord members in their own home states!#eventually i'm thinking about making the discord server public as well#but right now it's just a well kept secret since i like that it's small :'D#anyways SINCERELY thank you if you've gotten this far. even if you can't join the patreon i appreciate that you took the time to read this#your time and attention is valuable and i don't take it lightly. take care 💖
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Not me (finally) buying a physical copy of 2005's Pride & Prejudice because I don't trust streaming companies to not take away whatever digital version I might purchase.
(Okay, yeah, it's totally me!)
#jane austen#pride & prejudice 2005#pride and prejudice#keira knightley#matthew mcfayden#listen its uneasy for me to think of things going digital only#like i understand it but i do not trust it at all#having a physical copy of a book or movie or music you love is really something we should all make sure we have#👀👀 you just never know#not to mention it makes me sad to see judt.how inexpensive dvds are anymore#like oh heres a 5 dollar and less dvd bin full of anything you can imagine#also i fully support still checking either form of media out from your local library#if you can of course#anyway this is a bunch of rambling all to say that im happy to at least own a copy and if a special edition comes out in 2025#well you already know im going to be all for that too
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THE SIBLINGS !!!
And yes Louise is the eldest of the quadruplets. And yes, not all the barons names are humbert, i hope you guys don’t mind this AU name changes for the Barons.
Louise as the oldest, considers herself to have more power amongst her brothers, so she can call them whatever she likes such as to call them by their first or middle names. BUT, if any of her brothers calls her by her first name or anyone in that matter, they will be facing some terrible consequences later on (she still hates her first name)
Humphrey, like his sister does not like to be address by his first name, he rather like to be called by his middle name ‘Hugo’.
Humbert, ever since he was little hates his name, but as he matures he just accept it. (He prefers to be called Humbert by his siblings but he won’t admit it)
Huntley, like Humbert has also grown fond of his name. Although, he prefers to be called ‘Hunter’ or ‘Hunt’ (’Wolfie’ is a special case for someone)
All of the siblings do have charm, but put them together in a room, they’re just one braincell.
enjoy ;)
P.S.
If there are people who came across this post with the same name, i hope you are not offended and i am sorry in any way. I believe you guys are awesome people and i hope you have a great day. ;)
#myart#Baron Humbert von Gikkingen#Haru Yoshioka#The Gikkingen Siblings#the cat returns#Neko no Ongaeshi#studio ghibli#okay..#about their jobs#i'm still working on it#i'm kinda set on Hugo to be a librarian manager at his family's own public library#and maybe i'll set on Hunter to be an archeologist hehe#while Louise ofc is the heir of the Gikkingen household making her the CEO of the family's businesses#Haru : Your middle name is Archie?#it's ok baron she thought it's cute#but that childhood photo of him will be posted in their friend group#it's the group profile picture now
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