#opertunity

[futurebird]

 Universität Innsbruck wants ant people

Deadline October 5, 2023

Excellent opportunity for PhD students with focus in ants!

black formica sp. eating a weevil.

[blueseas1]

Grateful to be part of the U.S.-Saudi Business Council's incredible journey!

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the U.S.-Saudi Business Council for leading a remarkable U.S. Business Development Mission to the 5th Future Projects Forum in Riyadh. This outstanding initiative has created an invaluable platform, fostering collaboration, and strengthening the ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia. With gratitude, we commend the U.S.-Saudi Business Council for its unwavering commitment to forging partnerships, fostering innovation, and propelling economic growth.

The 5th Future Projects Forum in Riyadh has provided an exceptional opportunity for businesses to showcase their expertise, explore investment possibilities, and unlock new horizons. We express our deepest appreciation to the U.S.-Saudi Business Council and its members for their dedication to promoting cross-cultural dialogue, fostering a vibrant business environment, and paving the way for a brighter future.

[whathehonestfuk]

Rockstar! Eddie and transfem! Hoh! Stevie

Eddie being aggressively enthusiastically publicly in love with her because that's his fucking wife! (No matter if they can't get legally married because Stevie can't change her gender marker and gay marriage isn't legal yet)

Eddie getting worried for all of five minutes when the transphobia and abelism start rolling in but Stevie is a mean girl and a bitch at heart and puts it to good use

Robin being Stevie's go to asl interpreter who signs all the stupid shit people say so she can laugh at them with Stevie

Corroded coffin refusing to be interviewed or photographed ect by anyone who has been openly transphobic or abelism to anyone not just Stevie

Their poor pr manager whose trying to get them to tone it down a little bit to be more "mainstream and palatable to people" which only gets them to double down because fuck that

[sunnydayaoe]

Honestly the fact that so much shit happens with me trying to make platonic Fresh and Nightmare content makes me very sad.

its like,,, genuinely I think if people backed off and accepted that the stuff I was making was platonic, I would have made Actual ship content sometime in the future. the idea of them in some sort of toxic romantic/sexual relationship is more interesting and less useless compared to some ships I think... like I still like the platonic one more, but I COULD have made oen or two things about the ship.

I think fresh being in any type of romantic relationship would freak him out, but I can see Nightmare pushing the issue and it being strange and very unhealthy for both involved. and well, that's interesting to me, to explore Fresh's on relationships, something that matters a lot to me. Especially in a way that shows what he Wouldn't like, because that helps flush things out.

it kinda sucks though, because any and all interest in making any Real freshmare content has been extinguished. Now when I think of it, it just pisses me off and is disinterring.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[liliotl]

Hellooo everynyan!

I'm back but probably not going to be super active. I've done some soul searching and meditation. I still haven't been able to get insurance to medicate myself, but im doing my best.

I'll probably just use tumblr to post my art and try to keep interactions with ppl to a minimum. My dms are always open but I might not answer back right away. I'm grateful for all the positive asks yall are the best... u__u

I'll close asks for a while just to keep the bullying to a minimum.

[brainrot-has-overtaken-me]

Ya know with the amount of government on the Hermitcraft server this season, I’m just waiting for a Mayoral race to occur once more

[cata-intheflesh]

Just got around to watching the Dead Poets Society and then my teacher sent me auditions to try out for A Midsummer Nights Dream. What is my life.

[emmikay]

I'm trying to go over all the events in my head-

I think Elpenor might have been the ONLY member of Odysseus' crew to receive a proper burial.

[thebestkatayanagi]

@thebetterkatayanagi is gay everyone. Trust me I would know.

[meramori]

its better than it was but it still doesnt seem THAT much better..

[hiya-im-mary]

IVY MOUSE REDESIGN!!!!

Elsagate has moved on to video games now so I’m using her now fuehehehehe!!!!!!!

I think she would work good in House Of Mouse!! Also there's no Mortimerised version of Minnie,so…she'll fit in perfectly!!!!!

Alsoooo…I ship her with Pete. I REGRET NOTHING!!! SCREW CYNICISM!!!!! SCREW SARCASM!! WOOOOO!!!!!! *Crashes into wall and explodes into glitter*

Also comparison with her OG version!!

I hope I did her justice!!!

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

What the shit is everhood

(Info dump pls?)

Gladly! ^w^

so everhood is a game that I would say is very similar to undertale, from the pixel art style to the humour to the general uhh theme? i guess is the word? Where you play as a wooden puppet named red on a quest to get your arm back from gold pig. The battle mechanic is a rhythm based system where you have to jump around and over beats the enemies through at you. The music is absolutely fucking fantastic and i actually bought the soundtrack i like it so much lol

a couple battles get absolutely insane with the visuals too, to the point im not even totally sure i can do a description justice? you can check out this video if you're curious, theres really no spoilers in this battle but it shows what im talking about. these battles are where the photosensitivity warning really comes in though, so be cautious if that effects you

I can't go too deep into the plot without getting into spoiler territory, so i'll put that under the cut for anyone who's curious, but here's what I can say! You go around collecting clues to find gold pig and get your arm back, and along the way you get to meet all the wonderful characters that populate Everhood. Like Rasta beast, Noseferatchu the sneezing vampire, Flan and Muck, the dancing mushrooms, a vampire who's name always changes. You really get to know and love these characters while also learning that maybe everything isn't as it seems in Everhood. Maybe, actually nothing is what it seems. Maybe you're the only one willing to do something about. But..... are you willing?

oh also kermit is there and I think he might be god? Also you can kill him and it impacts literally nothing

Full plot summary under the cut. I highly recommend you play the game without spoilers, but if you're like me and you Need to know what happens before you play then go wild. I'll only be talking about the intended good ending though, since I haven't gotten around to playing the secret endings yet- oh also mild spoilers for undertale i guess if youre worried about that in 2023

so when I say its similar to undertale in themes, its sort of. in a reverse sense. In undertale the good ending is the pacifist route. By saving the monsters you help them escape the underground and better their situation. It is mercy, the direct functional opposite of killing, that saves you. There is no mercy kill because using mercy ends the fight period.

Well in Everhood, the good ending requires you to kill everyone.

Your arm was taken from you because you've done this before, wiped out countless lives, friends even. And now you must finish the job. Its hard and sad and it sucks but it has to be you because no one else is going to. It falls on you to go back to these spots you've been through already, these happy cheerful locations, and hunt down everyone you've come to know over the course of the game.

so why do you need to kill everyone? and how on earth is it similar to undertale at all? well, Everhood isn't just the title of the game or the location it takes place, its the state every single character in the game is stuck in.

in the distant past, humanity found a way to reach another world, one they called Everhood. And in this world, no one could ever die. Some people chose to stay in this world, which lost connection to the human world for some reason i dont remember rn, and in doing so slowly lost their humanity. They lived for eons and eons and eons, changing their shape and loosing themselves in the process. You discover at one point that the Green Mage, a chaotic character whom I love, has been keeping track of the years everyone has spent in Everhood, every year a tally on the wall of their secret playroom. It takes three hours to get to the end of this hallway, to give you an idea of scale here. three real time hours.

Your character, Red, is a vessel for the literal human player behind the screen to free the inhabitants of Everhood from eternity. They aren't really happy. They can't be. They've been stuck for so long, and even though they beg and plead for you not to kill them you have to. Its the only way for them to be happy and move on from Everhood. And don't get me wrong you CAN choose not to go through with it. You have to actively fight back after this reveal to kill anyone. I haven't played through this way, so I can't speak on it.

The ending is sort of ambiguous, in which Pink (the person pretending to be Red and letting you the player control them) goes to an afterlife after killing everyone and gets to see them one last time, and they're happy. They forgive you. One by one you talk to them and they thank you for freeing them, apologize for fighting you, and move on happily to whatever comes after death. I choose to interpret it literally, but there's something to be said about the idea it's all in Pink's head. I don't think it was meant to be taken that way, but its one way to look at it.

The game sort of looses people with this being the good ending. But I think it's a beautiful metaphor. Sometimes you keep doing things that hurt you only because you're used to it. Maybe you don't even realize how its hurting you, its better than the alternative right? For the longest time I kept my bedroom blinds perpetually closed because the bright sunlight gave me headaches. I didn't realize just how depressed it was making me to be in near constant darkness like that. It was only after I bought a plant on a whim that I realized how much happier I was letting in the sunlight. You get so used to bad habits and awful jobs and clothes you hate because they're familiar. And doesn't it just seem easier? To take non-action and let everyone keep living and having fun in Everhood? Green Mage hosts DnD every week (or whatever counts as a week after you've lived for eternity), go play with the mushrooms in the forest, doesn't that sound lovely? You don't have to kill anyone, just keep living on exactly as you were! You have friends here Red! It hurts too much to kill them! they don't want to die! why not just give up? How could anything good come from the pain of change?

[horror-aesthete]

Midnight Mass, 2021, dir. Mike Flanagan

Book IV: Lamentations

[death4myluv]

such an academic failure

[fishyartist]

“There was an obvious Lesser of Two Evils’’ and ‘’hey why re we letting either of the Evils be in charge of All This Shit? Like what the Fuck man’’ aren’t contradictory statements