#not april fools posting btw lol

[daxdraws]

a few things: im not really feeling the weekly single pages release for my webcomic. i think im gonna obliterate my backlog and post all of ch 1 in chunks (its almost 80 pages so maybe 10-15 a week?). the other thing... im tired of pretending that i dont hate coloring, so i think im gonna stop doing that. or, limited palette? im gonna take a week or so off to figure this out and prep the pages

[fernsnailz]

the reviews for Dance in Fire 2 are in and they're giving it like. 2 stars at best

DOWNLOAD DANCE IN FIRE 2 HERE

[same-picture-of-a-rock-every-day]

I genuinely thought you just had a bunch of posts queued and has abandoned the account or died or something like a year ago/hj

I never have the energy to queue more than like, 20 posts at once, but I HAVE kind of died over the past few months lol. College is fun but draining asf, and i've been going though alot socially and mentally. I am slowly trying to transition back onto this blog though, as soon as i figure out how to celebrate a certain follower milestone that RLLY crept up on me (seriously though you guys are crazy(lovingly) and the love I get on this blog keeps me going) in the meantime please take these cool rocks that i photographed with my new macro lens d200 that I adore:

none as cool or as pretty as The Rock, of course

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

BREAKING SWIFTIE NEWS:

NEW Reputation Setlist changes include sequence feat. Hand Puppets!!!

[sanchoyo]

haha....how much effort do u have to put into a silly little Test Thing before it starts to become A Real Maybe Serious Effort Thing. no reason im asking. def not accidentally animating something 😳

[kayak-lmao]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 50 FOLLOWERS!!

This isn't an April fools joke btw! I seriously did!!

Sappy Ramblings below

It's technically 52 now but 50 is a nicer number-

This is genuinely so amazing. 50 may not seem like a lot to most people, but it means a lot to me. When I started this blog, I expected it to be a silly place to scream into the void. I only expected my sister and friend (thank you guys btw! Love you ♡ ) to see my posts. Now having just hit 500 reblogs, 50 followers, and this being my 251st post, I've come farther than I ever expected to! Thank you to everyone who's ever supported me in anyway possible. What was a small tap or click for you was a massive boost of determination for me. There's so many cool artists and people I respect who follow me now and it's just- AAHA!! I can't even think of the right words. I wanted to especially thank @beebisbeeble for introducing me to how mutual culture works (lol) and for just being a very cool person in general! This is getting a little too long, so I'll leave it at this:

THANK YOU!

anyways shameless plug lol

Follow me on twitter @kayakhere,

And on tiktok @kayak_lmao

[dol-dee]

I know someone already sent in an ask about this a few months ago and that your blog isn't really a place for this, but I high-key miss princesstokyomoon lol. We never really interacted except for me liking their posts and him booping me on April Fools but she was such a joy of a blog to see on my dash. I'm sorry, I didn't really know who else to say this to since you're like... The only blog I've seen to mention them so recently so... Yeah :,) Feel free to delete this ask btw. Not expecting an answer. Just had to tell someone.

Oh you're fine!! no need to apologize, really! :) I'm glad you reached out actually, its always nice to know when people value your presence after all. He made a new account recently: @princesstokyom (since tumblr is doing a greaaaat job as always and not re-establishing her original account...) So thanks for telling me! I hope you're gonna see this post <3

[communicationsarchiveweehoo]

Good to see another cmncs fan in 2024 lmfao! I’m currently on a hunt for the colorbars remastered (jelf the elf april fools, i think) image, the full of this one — if you find it, if you’d be so kind to post it u_u Appreciate the hell out of this blog btw, you’ve gotten some really good posts that i thought were lost forever lol

tyty ! i will not stop until i find every last communications post on this website ueheehehehehe (hyperfixation moment)

as for the picture, i remember seeing a full version on amino or pinterest or something a while ago but i cant seem to find it rn..... ill look for that

i did find these though so i hope theyre ok for now lol

[lottiecrabie]

i’ve been here also since rockstar girlfriend or before (things blur together..what was before and after rsg, idek lol), but i remember very vividly doing my typical bathroom lottiecrabbie.com scroll, in my grandparents bathroom on april first (the br decor and shower curtains were all christmas themed…IN APRIL?!) on april first when i saw that there would be another part of pfms. i really thought it was a joke lol. but this is how and when i cracked and shared with my sister (does/did she care… that didn’t matter lol, cause i was so excited) you should hear me trying to explain pfms in the most clean way that i can out loud lmao (…it’s really hard btw) 🫢🫨

#explaining the plot of pfms out loud is very very humbling 😔🥲

🐛

there was Nothing before rockstar gf i made the account and posted the fic on the same day so that is a Good way to know😭

do Not be too harsh on your grandparents i haven’t taken my christmas decorations down in Three Years 😐

the great april’s fool mass hysteria….. oh how i miss it.. was literally giggling all day as people freaked out trying to figure out if it was a Joke or Not i had a Blast!

omg explaining pfms to your sister😭😭 and trying to keep it clean as if every single part is just not about then fucking lmao. ‘yeah so um. there’s this religious girl and this atheist guy yk and um…. they. Kiss. I guess. and then they go to a confessional and… talk…… and then. um. ok so. then they kiss more. and. wow this is hard.’

[slimy-vore-bog]

Update

I'm alive btw lol

Just felt like reminding people that I'm still here and I'm still doing vore related things lol /hj

More seriously though, this is a thing that is a lot in advance, but I'm thinking about what to do for April fool's this year. Not in terms of what the twist is this time; it's still danish-english translation (however it is a new form of it and I might tell another day) but if I want to write some of the other characters and what the tone should be.

And I am back to working on writing again, so I'll probably be posting that sometime next month

Christmas holidays nearly took the life out of me, holy heck it was a rough time to be together with so many people, so I first really recovered enough to go to school I think a few weeks ago? Still not doing amazing, but I'm feeling way better and less exhausted

Anyway, the thing I'm working on now is a little over a year old project I finally got the inspiration to pick back up, which is the Cat and Mouse/shapeshifter AU

It's a lot different; mainly I dropped the experiment part and settled for a "game gone too far because of Amity's animal taking control" thing and they are alone out in a forest.

After that I might decide to do something other than the request I have... Not because I don't like the idea; it's something I have been thinking about doing many times myself, but I have the feeling (even if I can't remember why right now) that I will both want and need to write something else first

Anyway! This was a longer update than intended, but that's the Status rn! c:

[fleeceyang]

Warning: this is long !! tiny letter to make it ✨compact✨

Why do I want to get emotional here on your asks?? 😭😭 Might be bcs I read all of the posts under your tag with my name 🤧 it's 2024! Who would've thought, it's been... 3-4 years since we first spoke? Happy Christmas and New years btw!!! Haha, how does time goes so fast!! I want to thank you for everything, your friendship has been one of my favorite things while I'm living.

Do you remember our first conversation? How I lost my indigo acc bcs I forgot the password and some random lady got the mail I did? Its been years, idk what happened to that lol aaaand, you remember that April fools we changed urls? I didn't! But when I saw the posts again I was like wait a damn minute!!! What!!!?? And then all memories came flooding back!! Do you remember when we did a videocall reacting to I.M's first MV? I still have the video of my reaction jsks do you remember when you sent your first letter? And I told you I had your lavender drawing on my wallet and your paper thingy on my wall? I actually changed my wallet this year, but guess what stayed the same? Yeah, your drawing. It's been a lot of memories, and I still remember them with so much warmth inside me.

I finished writing the letter that I'll send tomorrow! And I'm filled with so many emotions I couldn't help but talk to you about them. I love you so much, with my whole soul, fran <3 I may have gone too emotional but watch me disappear for another 2 years KAKDKS my love would remain untouched, still.

With all my love.

—Indigo.

INDIGO MY FRIEND INDIGO happy christmas and new years to you too!!!

i may have shed a tear or two on public transit….. i’m grateful that we’ve kept in touch in other ways but i will forever be fond of all the memories we shared on here <3 it was such a blow to the stomach when you left that i considered deactivating 😭 if indigo has no fans that means i am no longer on this earth i am nothing….. i just revisited my tag for you and all the emotions of that time came rushing back it’s kind of bittersweet. i look back at the gift you made me for secret santa every now and then :-) i hope you continued to create one way or another! you are a big reason why i took up my major in the first place.

none but one person noticed that we switched urls it was a lame prank 😭 i’m pretty sure i also recorded a video diary after our call HELP we are one in the same 🤝🏽 i can’t believe you kept my painting in your wallet after all these years i appreciate you SO so much…..

looking forward to how this year will pan out for us and i hope we can write to each other frequently! living inside my mail box for the time being. i love YOU with my whole soul

[naniskys]

hi!!! tbh i also found it a bit weird that phuwin said that part 2 will be at the end of the year because i fully expected them to make us wait until march or april. maybe they “had” to split the it because some shows were about to start filming/are already filming like ploy’s yearbook apparently and the trainee, but they also wanted to give actors who haven’t had time to film a pilot yet the chance to have a project next year.

oh btw i fully agree with your wishlist and i really do hope that most of the actors, like firstkhao, joongdunk & perthchimon, who just recently had a show come out are going to get a show together again. firstkhao have mentioned part 2 before and there is still this mysterious instagram story from jojo with tattoed first, and dunk hinted at having more time to act now that he’s finished school so fingers crossed

yeah exactly, although i guess that makes sense. i'm glad some shows have started filming already/will start filming soon, seeing that there's 16 shows in part 1 alone so idk how they're gonna finish + air them all AND the part 2 shows just during next year

oh and also the shows from gmm23 that haven't aired yet...

fk had me fooled, i was so sure we were getting that romcom or any other show in part 1, and then the event just ended 😭😭 and that tattoo story !! 👀 i'm so intrigued fr (and then it turns out sand jsut gets a tattoo in ep 12 LMAO)

and joongdunk's another one !!! i saw them post a story tgt before the event and was like "yep we're getting that jd show" (i was wrong once again) lol although wasn't joong going to focus on his studies next year or smth? or maybe i'm confusing with pond

overall i've realised i'm not particularly good with predictions 😂😂

(you know who is good tho? the reddit folks, they figured out greatinn and jossgawin which is absolutely insane to me 😭😭)

(also i find the 10 year old greatinn backstory so fucking funny)

[bleue-flora]

No intrusion, always feel free to ramble <3… just be warned it may make me go into essay mode… oh well I guess I’m always in essay mode lol. ;D

Just to be clear this was an April fools joke with this post, these lines were plucked very strategically amongst other dialogue out of context. I know not really the point but just throwing that out there… I don’t in fact think Tommy was right. Really ever, perhaps a few instances, maybe…

But anyways… you are right of course, the ending is about seeing Dream as a person and Tommy healing. It is not about forgiveness but understanding. Though a very wise person once told me that forgiveness isn’t for them but for you. And I’ve found this to be true that forgiveness is about healing myself and letting things go. It’s not about saying the other person was right or justified or you’ll go back to trusting them or forget what they did or your own feelings are invalid, it’s about seeing them as the flawed human being they are and recognizing that they hurt you and accepting that and moving on. If we choose to stay stuck in the past, in the position of they wronged me and they are evil, we not allowing ourselves or the other person to grow. They screwed up- it hurt, it hurt so much, but maybe you hurt them too, maybe they were just doing their best, maybe they didn’t mean it or maybe they are just pricks. In any case, not forgiving or more importantly not moving on will only hurt you- either by not forgiving them you are not giving them the chance to grow and be better or they are pricks who don’t care anyways. Forgiveness isn’t about them, it’s about you. You can’t control them, they can do nothing for you, what matter is what you have control over and that is your own forgiveness. It’s about healing and moving on.

Now did Tommy forgive Dream here? Ehh, you could probably make an argument for both cases, it’s hard to say. What I can say is that it wouldn’t be because of some flimsy reason and it wouldn’t be unreasonable just because he caused him to almost take his own life. And I can say that someone who almost did take their own life over how my best friend hurt me. And you know what? Even after she talked shit about me behind my back and turned all of our friends against me, over time my anger faded and I was still hurt but I also knew she was hurting and I was one of the reasons she was. So a little less than a year later, I wrote her an apology letter, admitting what part I had to play and how I was sorry I hurt, intentional or not. And after I felt relieved and I was able to move on and it began to not hurt so much. I never received an apology back btw, but I didn’t expect to. That wasn’t why I sent the letter. I just needed to say my peace and it wasn’t about whether I could or couldn’t feel hurt of whether her actions were right, but recognizing it for what it was and deciding to move on and learn and be better.

But regardless, the important part is like you said, he reaches a point of understanding and seeing Dream as a person not an indestructible villainous abuser. That being the first step to healing, the theme of the dsmp, and completing Tommy’s character arc. He finally took the time to listen to Dream.

And yeah I do think a lot of people relate it to a child and parent relationship, which I both can see but also bothers me since the are actually peers but anyways. I like your points of Dream representing a parent just doing their best to make the lesson stick and keep the peace, even if it seems cruel. Though I’d perhaps say that doesn’t only apply to abusive parents. I mean timeout, writing lines, spanking, grounding, taking something away, highlighting what the child did wrong is a part of parenting. We can argue whether it’s good parenting but regardless I wouldn’t call it abuse though perhaps cruel (not to say that there are no abusive parents out there obviously). But, and this applies across the board- it’s ok for the child to be hurt, even if that doesn’t make the parents abusive or bad. And a child perspective is so small on the number of years they have to compare, that many things can seem like abuse to them, even into adulthood they can have that perception or take with them misguided truths based on childlike analysis of the world, but that doesn’t mean that the parents were super horrible even if the child is traumatized. Because as you said, people are doing their best and sometimes that means they screw up and make mistakes or sometimes the child won’t learn the easy way of being told no. And sometimes we end up traumatized and hurt by things that are unintended and our fault too.

Having said all that, and I think I’ve gotten off the point a bit, my bad… that does not make Tommy right. So I’ll have to respectfully disagree with you there. Tommy was not as you say ‘reactionary to issues presented to him’ he was the issue, the instigator. He made the first move and Dream was forced to react and Dream tried many ways to make the point stick and keep the peace before going as drastic as exile. The only thing Tommy was right about is his right as a person to feel hurt. But just because everyone has a right to their feelings does not make there actions or opinions or stances right. Tommy can be hurt but that doesn’t mean Tommy wasn’t wrong or innocent.

(Here are some other analyses on Tommy and the finale since I feel I may have gotten lost and that say things better: Dsmp finale - Audience perception relating to Tommy - Tommy essay)

No. c!Tommy was never right about anything.

Nah, Tommy was right.

Instances of Tommy being right:

[Dsmp Finale]

30:27 "You know what, Dream? You know what, Dream? I’m sorry because you’re right."

38:27 "You—you—you didn’t have a bad thought in your mind, it was just George and Sapnap."

38:53 "That’s why you’re doing this isn’t it? You just want it to be simple."

40:12 "You just wanted it to be simple, you wanted to be back with your friends. That makes sense."

41:52 “I just didn’t realize how much that hurt you.”

[everyotherworm]

Fuck Cameron rights board for Crios from prodigy comedies

x x x | x x x | x x x

[rudjedet]

On this lovely first of April, what are your thoughts on the so-called dark pharaoh Nephren-Ka? Would you consider him a genuine avatar of Nyarlathotep (also referred to as a dark pharaoh) or just a particularly devout acolyte? Is our main source of information on Nephren-Ka (one Howard Phillips Lovecraft) reliable, or does his extreme racism make his work less useful?

I would always suggest to read the primary sources, rather than base one’s self purely on a secondary source - especially if the secondary source is known to be given to extreme fancy and, indeed, racism, as Lovecraft is. There’s a reason us Egyptologists only recommend Budge for kindling, nowadays. 

Now, as for the source material. From this we can already conclude that Lovecraft has made an enormous mistake in rendering the name of this “Nephren-ka”. There is no Egyptian ruler named Nephren-ka. It stands to reason that Lovecraft here meant to refer to Neferkare, otherwise known as Pepi II, instead. That Lovecraft also uses the term “pharaoh” instead of “king”, as well as an outdated spelling to render the name (i.e. the use of -ph instead of -f in nfr), can be attributed to the time period in which he wrote down his findings. Scholars of this period often made mistakes - usually in good faith, mind! -, once again, see Budge. 

However, here I have to point out that Lovecraft could also have meant another Egyptian personage from roughly the same time period, namely a man named Neferka. Neferka does come closer to Lovecraft’s rendering of “Nephren-ka”, however, Neferka was not a king. His list of titles is as follows:

Der Priester der Isis und der Hathor, Priester des Horus und Seth, Priester der großen Neunheit, Priester der Naunet Nefer-ka, sein Kosename ist Pepy-anchu d.M. (TLA, seen dd. 2/4/20)

Neferka, then, was a priest of the Ennead. If this is the man Lovecraft was writing about, he has made another enormous error in mistaking a man who was admittedly an important priest of the gods for a ruler. 

Odder mistakes have been made, even by scholars, and unfortunately there’s not much concrete evidence Lovecraft gives otherwise, apart from there being references to a “curse” of this Nephren-ka/Neferka(re). This would make it more plausible that we’re dealing with Neferkare, the king, rather than Neferka, the priest. (I should not have to point out that the use of “curse” in this is a remnant of Victorian colonialist fuckery rather than an accurate portrayal of reality, but it is known that Lovecraft was a virulent racist so this isn’t surprising.)

Now, in the Old Kingdom, during which Neferkare/Pepi II reigned, the king was still considered a god. In later eras of Egyptian history this idea was replaced by that of the ruler as the link between humanity and the realm of the gods.  Neferkare/Pepi II was one of the last to reign in the Old Kingdom, and he did so for a very, very long time. During his reign we see a sharp decline in royal power, and mere decades after his death, the Old Kingdom collapses.

While the concept of the king as a(n incarnation of) god (i.e. Horus), as well as the long reign - Neferkare/Pepi II ascended the throne at 6 years of age, and ruled for at least 64 years - seems to support the concept of him being an incarnation of Nyarlathotep, one would not expect to see such an immense decline of royal power during his reign. If anything, the opposite. 

Based on the available evidence I would sooner, therefore, ascribe to him the title of very devoted servant, instead of actual reincarnation. However, there is of course also the matter of Nyarlathotep himself, which I will not go into now, but suffice to say that because Lovecraft and a few of his own followers are the only ones even mentioning this deity, his existence as proper Egyptian god are disputable, at least. 

As for your final question - Lovecraft, like Budge, is not a reliable Egyptological source and I would steer clear of his work on Nyarlathotep and “Nephren-Ka” unless you’re willing to cross-reference with the primary sources.

[tales-of-transparent]

Transparent Aster! This is an edit so please credit if using.