#not even the same acronym

[mariistyping]

Also this is just something about me but. I know realistically every time I see OPLA on here it stands for ‘one piece live action’ but still every time at first I think to myself “ah yes. Avatar the last air bender” 💀💀💀🤣

[torontofetish]

would nations forget their own languages as they go extinct? when the language is suppressed, do they stumble over words and mix up grammar and realize it just doesn't come as easy to them as it used to? do their native languages fade away and get replaced by new languages, languages of conquest and oppression and change? i wonder if they think about them sometimes, all those words they forgot, all those pieces of their culture and identity that got lost to time and violence and the all-encompassing oblivion of history.

[iamespecter]

Honestly flabbergasted at the fact that some bozo on youtube associated an american white supremacy group with filipino freedom fighters all because of the same acronyms they use

[whatudottu]

What better way to practice new prosthetics then to piss of the bitch that got you to need them in the first place!

In other news, my pirate ocs Gali and Ido (with a third Meridi not present) who are the two sides of the fulmini cult escapees :P

A bit of backstory under the cut since they're the only fuckers I have WITH a backstory! Which btw does detail cult shit so :P big fat warning for that-

The inciting incident on Petropia that introduced it's modern underground population to the surface named the Surface Craze was in all due part because of fulmini interference at the behest of the High Override, who saw what was initially just a planet entirely made of quartz-like crystal the Override Fleet could use as a power source. Having instead found that the planet was not only populated but by a species of the living variant of that same quartz-like material - electrical properties and all - but that additionally they can regenerate their crystalline body so long as they have the energy to pull from.

Seeing this as a solution to the fulmini's energy crisis - a perpetual machine at it's finest - the High Override sought to heh... acquire some petrosapiens for themselves. To their collective benefit, a community of petrosapiens had found their faith and world shattered, previously having been extremely devoted to the Sugi religion (derived from the ancient texts of Thuugi back when their tongues were long enough to be bitten off). Instead of needing to drag away dissenters who fought tooth and nail against the invaders, this community had already shifted their faith onto the false prophet of the High Override, which already had them fall into the Coupled Override head over heels.

The cult has now expanded it's pool of prey, and like the unwilling fulmini who gives the High Override their tithe (their minds, their central colony), the petrosapien cultists pay with their arms.

50 years (or the closest equivalent) into this arrangement, 50 years Petropia spent experiencing the surface for the first time in generations, Ido was born into the cult far away from the planet she should have known as home. Any doctor worth their salt had enough brains and stubbornness to not fall into faith-based trust of the Coupled Override, so between the lack of those and the remainder pseudoscience physicians left to echo chamber themselves, when Ido began developing Excessive Compression Disorder (ECD, a nerve-equivalent disorder that causes tension fractures throughout a petrosapien's crystalline structure) despite the rather obvious visible signed she went undiagnosed and improperly treated. At the age of 200 - a petrosapien's coming of age, and 50 years after Petropia's destruction - it was Ido's time to pay her tithe and begin her offerings to the High Override.

Gali - her sacrifricant - was to sever her arms below the elbow, as was procedure. What wasn't was the near explosive response from external pressure, or the last compressive force needed to completely shatter what had already started to break.

Cutting people's arms off is technically already a violent act however, though the lower arms survived the procedure as expected, the elbow and even upper arm had scattered shards of glass-fragile crystal in a visceral radius and physically severed through the sacrificant's central colony; then Gali was abruptly severed from the High Override after they felt as if a limb began necrotising. Sacrificants nor executioners really need an active memory to do their jobs, so Gali didn't need to have memory for however long their colony was one with the High Override's. Forcefully amputated from the larger system like an infection without any of the memories of being apart of said system however, kind of rewinds a colony back to the people they remember being long before any interference.

While Ido was caught staring wide-eyed, fearful, and newly lacking the limbs she thought she could regenerate easily - her arms try and try but they shatter like glass, crumble like sand, and she violently shudders like gravel grinding into each other - Gali regained access of their long unused senses and found a sea of hostile enemy combatants staring back. With all the training of a military general with none of the present self-awareness to realise they were the cause of the currently very panicky rock's lack of arms, Gali almost like a flick of a switch reverted to the many rules of engagement regardless of the fact that they were sporting exposed central colony that may or may not have been another's with their own collection of memories.

Seeing to rescue someone who had all their rights to fear them, Gali and Ido fled to the stars.

With a few language barriers mixed with someones learning they haven't spoken much longer then anyone thought they did, discovering how planets that were meant to be each other's home have been destroyed and irrecoverable, and learning the before and after to the horror story that is the High Override and their cultist network of external nerves and collective colony, Gali and Ido may or may not have gotten arrested :P

And they probably would have been tried for crimes neither of them could particularly understand not having learnt any of the common universal languages, up until the point the prison ship was raided by a collective of pirates only working together for equal cuts of the profits (the Plumbers used a prison ship to transport the Annihilargh while they still thought it to be a threat, what's to say they wouldn't simultaneaously transport prisoners - aka, the fucking point - with some high sought-after McGuffin). The pair would meet Meridi, a galvan with a penchant for mechanics and especially the kind that deceives an observer like - for instance - an android suit.

Meridi isn't here but gist is, she pilots both her own ship and an android resembling a human, and spies a pretty prize of walking talking taydenite. Instead of scoring a deal, she takes into consideration (perhaps with a cold calculation rather than a warm sympathy) the condition of ECD affected crystals and how much effort it would take to actually refine it and deems turning Ido into pocket change isn't worth it. In fact, further taking note of the explosive volatile footwork of crystallokinesis with the additional muscle of a fulmini veteran, actively helping Ido (and Gali by proxy) would potentially turn out more of a profit.

Gali isn't in dire need for hiding, but Ido uses shadow and a human-mouth jaw mask as tools to conceal what price her skin costs, while Meridi attempts to make prosthetics for a species that doesn't have nerves that also takes into account the unstable electrical currents produced by the compression of crystalline motor functions.

A bit of a tangent in a very long not-even-bothering-to-summarize backstory, I want to talk about petrosapien prosthetics, at least ones that can have 'motors' like Ido's arms (not like Chio's leg). With no external muscles to help strap in and extend the remnant of tendons humans have running through limbs, petrosapien exoskeletons do not offer the same interconnectivity and do not have easy ways to extend what had been cut off. Myoelectric limbs again by human standards also do not fit petrosapien nervous systems either, especially since the only nerves they have are in their equivalent of the central nervous system which also interacts with internal organs, the peripheral nervous system of a petrosapien operates with the highly structured yet individually unique non-standardised crystalline formations and compression. What Meridi does however is take material from Ido's crystal to create the joints in a conductive copper rod prosthetic (insulated in rubber to prevent harm to others), where Ido's compression triggers electricity to run down to remotely compress the crystal joints, which compress under the pressures of electricity and send the signal to be compressed again until motility is achieved.

And that is a lot of context :P woops- I either make no backstory or I make this convoluted piece of moving puzzle pieces, the duality of man I suppose :P

[little-mouse-adventures]

The Artemis Fowl series isn’t actually about a boy learning how to make friends and save the world with the help of fairies, it’s actually about a boy learning to become a fully-fledged necromancer.

[bookinit02]

i am so disconnected from popular fashion trends that i got like. maybe 3 tiktoks deep and i started seeing items of clothing that i have never seen or heard of before in my LIFE

[anyonghalimaw]

no shade 2 any of my mutuals who rbed this the person who put this on my dash isnt even a mutual but just be aware (as a cptsd haver) that this is soooo incorrect 😭😭😭😭 im sure the person who added this had no malicious intentions but this isnt even what cptsd stands for … it stands for COMPLEX ptsd and is caused by a LONGTERM TRAUMATIC event or a series of MULTIPLE traumatic events. specifically when victims are like Trapped or feel trapped in the traumatic situation/the environment where the trauma takes place

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

Because I just saw that post again and im still mad about it

[polyblanke]

crit role spoilers?

DID THEY KILL MY BOY???? MY GUY????? THE LITTLE YELLOW FELLA??? KILLED HIM DEAD??? WHATS HAPPENING. WHATS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD. WHAT THE HECK. WHAT. THIS CANT BE RIGHT. this is litterally my 9/11.

[goldensunset]

(person who has to neatly organize everything or die) i have to decide on how i’m going to tag a new piece of media before i start reblogging any of it. help

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Old habits | Resisted (2015)

Feeling sad tonight, so here’s an excerpt from wayyy back in the archives I laughed at that illustrates that Harrison (the waffle wielder) has not changed at all since 2015.

Also, this reads like it was copied right out of Seventh Virtue—will I add this back in? YES.

Book 3 of Fostered. 13-year-old Rachel. Circa 2015.

[marklikely]

the people i work with are literally so stupid one woman just said she doesn't trust countries whose name is an acronym because its evil "like ussr". girl we live in the usa

[canichangemyblogname]

Coffee stop stranger to my friend watching a TikTok video: “A terrorist organization uses that phrase to call for jihad, just so you know.”

Me playing dumb because I know this person is just being Arabophobic and Islamophobic: “Which phrase? Alhamdulillah?”

*a pause while they “think” because they don’t know Arabic and have no clue what they’re actually arguing against*

Them: “Yeah. You kids need to stop saying it. It makes people uncomfortable.”

Me: “THANK GOD you were here to tell us. Where would we be without you?”

Old people are so bold and they love to comment on things that are none of their damn business 😑

[lesbiancarat]

we should be so grateful to 2015 carats for choosing our fandom name... can u imagine if we were called wennie I would cry

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

my brain is leaking out of my ears fam, these last two and a half weeks of school are going to be ROUGH

[lilithrebellion]

I finished watching Lycoris Recoil and omg how does this make a(nother) perfect au for Amayui?

Yui as Chisato with the whole heart transplant thing, and Amaya as Takina, obviously. Because the part where she was freaking out about Chisato’s heart dying is literally Amaya in her LP route....😓

Besides that we have: Seiji as Mika Christa as Mizuki (but she says ���men suck, stay single” all the time instead) Krul as Kurumi Karlheinz as Yoshimatsu Beatrix as Kusunoki (bringing back that one joke about how she would want to adopt Amaya)

Yes, this means we have gay Karlheinz au for the lolz. 🤣

Which basically means the Sakamakis never existed either. Guess our only option is Kino for Majima since he works as a solo? Plus Yuuri as Robota, his non-existent design works perfectly here, he just has to wear a crow head the entire time or something pfft. And Krul using her one-eyed bat as her hacker symbol and pwning him would be epic.

Not to mention:

Amaya lying on Yui’s chest to listen for her lack of heartbeat

Seiji giving Yui her coming of age kimono

Christa being a wine aunt/mom to Yui

Yui and Kino having their drink break while trying to kill each other, sitting 5 feet apart because she’s NOT straight (also her gf is coming to help throw him off the building shortly)

Yui kicking the car navigation to yell at Yuuri when he hacks it 🤣

And of course, Yui picking Amaya up and spinning her around, picking out clothes for her etc. etc. etc. this anime is gold🥰