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missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉
#art#twisted wonderland#twst 5th anniversary#i'll stop for a while now i promise i just wanted to get this out#genuinely feels a bit weird to be 5 years in already huh!#that combined with having finally finished up episode 7...#oh no all the milestones hit at once help#hold on while i reminisce for a moment#because MAN i did not expect the anime disney boy game to become so special to me#(especially my little wet rat dragon and his family)#to be fair 2020 onward was uhhh let's say prime timing for a piece of silly and unapologetically indulgent media#(not to get too real here or anything but let's just say that. some of the stuff in 7 specifically did hit a bit harder than it should've.)#but also just. you know how it goes.#sometimes a thing doesn't so much speak to you as it reaches out and grabs you by the throat#with an intensity that shocks and bewilders no one more than you#and sure you can ignore it because having any emotions about media beyond faint scorn is of course the epitome of ~cringe~#but you could also just throw yourself wholeheartedly into it#and lemme tell you one of those options is a hell of a lot more fun#idk i'm just kinda rambling here#it's been a weird five years but i'm glad to have had these guys for it#and hey if nothing else it gave us meleanor#the inside of my brain at any given point is just the 'do it for her' meme covered in pictures of our late great dragon princess#i would not have it any other way
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#had a dream last night where me and my friends were wanted and hunted#and Halsin was part of the team#and I think there were a OT of elves trapped#*a lot#and me and my team saved them#and helped them stand up to the slaver that captured them#and we were on the run#I don't remember the entire thing but#long story short#I got a call from my dad that was also on the run#and that had some superpowers I think? and he was helping me?#and in case they got to him or to me#I told him that I love him#I don't think this grief is going away tbh#my mind still trrows me in there#me after my parents' death#personal#funny enough#I slept better last night than I slept the night before that#usually I'd say having a dream of my fav fictional character is way better#but of course some horror has to be mixed in with those dreams#idk man#our brains are weird
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old coves and a small derek
#cove holden#taion chantilly#derek suarez#our life beginnings & always#our life beginnings and always#our life#my art#2023#2022#AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHGISLHKKHKH SLOSH SLOSGH <- my brain being jumbled around like a fish bowl being swirled#i love cove so much i shld draw him again sometime...... derek too....... gosh i miss our life#raise ur hands if you think cove deserves the world#these coves are kinda weird sorry. or maybe they arent idek
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I have to ask which is the siegfried photo you confuse for yourself I am curious

It's this one!!! This fucking pic! It isn't even one where we especially look alike, but my brain has gone, "no, no this is YOU, you don't get to have one of his smolder looks, you get to have this ??!! expression have fun unpacking that"
#chit chat#I almost fuxking tagged this as MY FACE#I want to meet Sam IRL and give him a big hug and tell him he has done such lovely work#and that it personally means a lot to me to see my childhood blorbo soften into such a family man#and how our resemblence is complex and fun and weird and affirming to navigate as a trans man#but also how this fucking photo just ?????#I am going to commit to The Bit and recreate this photo best I can ha ha#“Nick just delete the photo off your roll”#AND HAVE MY BRAIN WIN??? NO!
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It's been a minute! Making myself work through our backlog of half-finished projects before we let ourselves start any new ones so here's our little satyr with her wig finally styled and the base layer on her antlers painted.
Still not sure what to name her, I'm leaning toward something woodsy that would match or at least sound good with Nutmeg.
#ignore that i switched pronouns mid sentence ok our brain is just weird#dolls#bjd#art#ooakdoll#custom doll#doll custom#doll customization#pennys box#1:12 scale#satyr#satyr girl#the braids are short enough to defy gravity! very cute#.satyr#my dolls
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the sys is feeling some internal emotions lately, reminded me of my sister. drew this. I imagine we’d dress like this to go to church.
yes this is life is strange related but pls keep in mind this is system art, and is personal to me as an alter. 🧶
#ok to rb btw#it’s weird to miss someone who doesn’t exist#especially someone I have so little memory of. our brain fills in with real world memories#I wish there was more actual art of kristine#my art#sys talk#nathan prescott#kristine prescott#life is strange#lis#the prescotts#digital art#fanart#system art#introject#fictive
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I'll find you. Wait for me.
hee hee hoo hoo AUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PAIN PAIN SUFFERING PAIN IN ALL DIRECTIONS!!!! TO HELL WITH IT (LITERALLY)!!!!!!!!!
#oakworthy#dungeons and daddies#dndads#fanart#hermie the unworthy#normal oak garcia#The Normal AU#counterpoint: this could also be normal canon. pun intended#they're soulmates your honor#rip to everybody on a phone. this only looks good on pc#I haven't drawn or really even posted about normal a lot because#I guess my internal image of him doesn't really look like what the rest of the community draws him as#like I tried to do the fluffy haired normal in one of my first posts with him#(was also an oakworthy drawing LMAO)#but it didn't feel right for me. it didn't match what I saw in my brain#no disrespect to fluffy normal. shoutout to that guy#gotta be one of my favorite genders#but yknow. every artist has their own unique way of drawing the cast#and it can tell you so much about how they perceive them. so much about the artists themselves.#have you fucking looked at sage's willy stampler. the npcs series. have you looked at their fucking anything dude#have you fucking LOOKED at iersei's EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY THEIR NORMAL HE IS SO CUTE#I went on a whole rant about dndads artists to my friend qrow the other day. because I could not physically#keep in how much I love these people in our community#would you guys think im weird if I made a post going into Extremely Concerning Detail about how much I love the artists here#I love so many artists here#its so insane. its SO insane#IM ALREWADY ON MY SOAPBOX. ARE YOU SEEING THIS SHIT#SOB#I have to do my homework#my art
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People really be in the OFMD tag saying that Izzy is shifting the blame when he says "we did this to him" because absolutely 0% of eds behaviour was about Stede and all of it was Izzy's fault while Ed... *Checks notes*... Shoots anyone on his crew who mentions Stede by name, refuses to go to land (where he last saw Stede), says "fuck you Stede bonnet" and crashes weddings because he's heartbroken. Right.
#ofmd#izzy hands#izzy hands haters are so bizzare to me#this little man did something weird to your brains just as he did something weird to ours
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Watching over you 💙💫 [x]
#destiel#spn art#spn fanart#dean Winchester#castiel#supernatural#wiggleart#I had sketched this out on my old iPad based on this original doodle I did years and years ago#and wanted to finish it up on my new work space so I didn’t have to worry about layers haha#I’m still getting used to that lol it’s so weird going from 10to 70 layers like my brain can’t process it#also yes I took this line for the art from the show but I did narrow it down to watching over you so it can#match with our official unofficial anthem watching over me lmao#shhhhh I’m perfectly fine
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Hey folks anyone got a story or joke or doodle suggestion or something?
#minute rants#not exactly at our best rn#Uhm#i crocheted an elephant and a snake and it didn’t work#Which is weird usually doing things helps but#Yea my brain is doing us the disservice of providing lovely simulations of terrible things that could happen to us#Anyhow#delete later#oh it got worse#Uh#yea we need noise right now#Not like loud noise or attention grabbing but like#Podcast. Or phone call#Maybe i should call my irl friend…#Hm
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Ink October day 29.5: Heir (version 2)
One who receives or is expected to receive a heritage, as of ideas, from a predecessor.
A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office.
#Standing Unions au#khux#khux Ventus#kh skuld#kh ephemer#kh lauriam#kh brain#kh strelitzia#kh sora#kingdom hearts#kh#kh au#kh ventus#blue boi draws#ink october#ink october 2024#ink October 2024 day 29#standing unions au my beloved!!! basically digital daybreak town survives and the dandelion leaders stay and are immortal also#Ventus never got split BUT there was a situation where his heart got pretty badly damaged and he ended up in Destiny Islands#where baby Sora still reaches out to help! The gang find Ventus and bring him back to daybreak and no one figures out what happened#until after Ventus is healed enough to wake up. they bring him on a vacation to Destiny Islands because he’s not all there yet and they run#into bby Sora who recognises Ventus somehow and they put two and two together and figure this kid had something to do with Ven’s miraculous#recovery. they get permission from his parents to bring him back to DBT to scan his heart to confirm it and yup. they were right.#Sora grows up bopping between Destiny and Daybreak,as they insist on him having checkups because this has never happened before and they#want to monitor it. Sora grows up with the whole Dandelion leader gang as sorta Aunts and Uncles to him and doesn’t really get how weird#this whole thing is. Ventus is the one who’s basically his guardian when he’s in daybreak and so is seen with him a lot and it low key#starts a rumor that Sora is his kid. this both is and isn’t true Ventus isn’t his parent but Sora is Ventus’ kid in a loving familial way#you know how it is. don’t worry about it that’s his little guy#Sora is the closest thing to a ‘kid’ any of the Leaders have at this point in time so they all spoil him rotten lol. Your kid? our kid now.#this is not the first time this has happened and it will not be the last. honestly this au has so much to it this is just some Sora stuff
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Dain: How did none of you hear what I just said?
Sloane: You're pretty.
Garrick: I'm technically the teacher.
Bodhi: I wanted to drop out a long time ago.
Ridoc: Aotrom got bored and has been making me listen to a stand-up-comedy routine he's rehearsing in our heads… to be fair, he's got some pretty great material.
Rhiannon: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.
Imogen: I don't hear bitches.
Violet: I've been zoned out for the past two and a half hours.
Xaden: I'm too pretty it's distracting.
Sawyer: I got distracted about halfway through… not by Xaden… just by life.
Ridoc: —Wait, Xaden; distracting to you or Violet?
Dain: You heard that, but not a single word I said during the CRUCIAL safety lecture?!
Aaric: Maybe it's the "lecture" part…
Sloane: Yeah, what if we called it a
"gathering" or something?!
Bodhi: No, there’s too many marked ones in one room for that to be "technically" legal.
Lynx: What about "commune"?
Imogen: Sounds a little too culty.
Garrick: And while it's not strictly stated in the codex, Xaden & I learned that one is also illegal the hard way—
Violet, turning to Xaden: —You were in a cult?!
Xaden: Of course not! … I tried to START a cult.
Violet, elbowing him: WHAT?!
Xaden, shrugging: It was 1st year… Garrick and I got bored… BESIDES its nothing like the scribe quadrant; that ACTUALLY wears robes!
Violet: Oh, not this again! It is NOT a cult!
Xaden: —YOU LIVED IN A BASEMENT!
Sawyer: Hey—My fiancé is a basement scribe!
Rhiannon: —WAIT—SAWYER—SHE SAID YES?You two FINALLY made it official!
Sawyer, blushing: Yeah, last Tuesday!
Violet, nearly popping her shoulder out, hugging him: I can’t believe I’m finally going to get a sister!
Mira: I’m your sister! … but yeah that’s pretty great too, aww, come over here!
Everyone, *unanimously cheering & congratulating*: Group hug!
Ridoc: And I’ve dubbed myself in charge of the ring-bear!
Sawyer: Yeah, about that; Jesinia asked me to clarify, you mean bearER right?!—
Ridoc: …
Dain, pinching the bridge of his nose: —Guys, come-on! *everyone turning & sitting back down* Would any of you have even come if it wasn't stated as CLEARLY mandatory?
Everyone *unanimously*: Absolutely not.
Dain, turning to Sloane: REALLY? You too?!
Sloane: What?! Oh, almost forgot we're dating now, so I have to pretend to agree with everything you say; yeah I totally would’ve come! *laughs* phew—close one… *whispers* can’t say I would’ve listened though…
Xaden, turning to Violet: —SINCE WHEN IS THAT A RULE?! — Violence hasn’t agreed with me ONCE in our entire marriage!
Violet, rubbing his shoulder: Yes dear, and you love me for that!
Ridoc: Hey! Aotrom says he’s ready if any of you wanna hear the intro!
Everyone *unanimously*, leaving: YES, let’s go!
#incorrect quotes#incorrect quotes queue#long incorrect quotes… more like long conversations#Xaden Riorson is a cockatoo and we love him for it#Xaden and Garrick definetly got up to some shenanigans and it gives Mauraders vibes#Sawyer was a little distracted let’s be honest though Ridoc definetly was and asking for himself too#Sawyer X Jesinia#whatever all the ship names are though I really need the SawyerJesinia one#I say this as a fellow basement dweller#How I Met Your Mother#Ring Bear#Sloane x Dain#Violet x Xaden#everything’s a lil weird when you think about it#The Office#Pam and Jim#I would watch the dragon stand up special… especially cause I wanna know if he’s actually standing#these got out of hand… Dain agrees#Rhiannon and Imogen are our sassy queens#Parks and Rec#Ben and April#Quadrant of Chaos#poor Dain#Fourth Wing on crack#Empyrean on crack#thankfully that’s not literal with Codagh#iron squad incorrect quotes#the first years… a drama I’d happily watched#it all got carried away… what can I say it’s dragon brain lmao
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"Even if you're faking, that means something is wrong."
This phrase used to be very comforting to us, because it was meant to teach the lesson of "it's okay to be wrong." But now because of all the shit that Endos have stolen and purposefully changed the meanings of, I can't help feeling gross hearing it, just knowing how Endos can corrupt open-ended phrases like that.
-🧟♂️/🧢 (He/him)
#sovsys.txt#((spiff🧢))#((malachi🧟♂️))#syspunk#systempunk#did#endos dni#anti endo#cdid#system#system stuff#system vent#sorry if this is phrased weird or hard to understand#our brain isn't braining well
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This has probably been transcribed before but I don't know what tags to find it under, so imma just do it again cuz this kind of stuff feels very relevant to know, more evidence that Humans are weird as fuck and our brains just make shit up. [Twitter thread by user named foone as a long image I stumbled upon on Pinterest]: _______________________________
You want to know something about how bullshit our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with out eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this
Having your vision turn into a blurry mess every time you move your eyes is obviously not a good idea, so our brains hide it from us. Now imagine you're an engineer and you have this problem
You've got some obvious solutions you could do.
make the vision go black during movement. (Some VR games do this!)
just keep showing the last thing we saw prior to movement
Both are good options with different downsides, but OH NO. this is assuming everything makes sense and is chronological and (regular) logical.
Your brain does neither of these options, really.
First, it basically puts your visual system on "pause".
You're not seeing blackness or even nothing, you're just not seeing period.
then when you finish your saccade, it shows you what you now see at the new position. and then it pretends it can time travel.
It seriously shows you the image at the new point, but time-shifts it backwards so that it seems like you were seeing it the whole time your eyes were moving.
And because your brain is not a computer with a consistent clock, this shit works.
You can see this effect happen if you watch an analog clock with a second hand.
Look away (with just your eyes, not your head), then look back to the second hand.
It'll seem like it takes longer than a second to move, then resumes moving as normal.
That's because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.
We've known about this effect for over 100 years, it's called "Saccadic masking" and more specifically Chronostasis. Your visual system lies to you about WHEN things happen by up to half a second (!) just to avoid saccades blurring everything.
So while I firmly believe we're basically just overgrown biological computers, we're apparently computers programmed by batshit insane drunkards in Visual Basic 5.
And you might think "hey wait, wouldn't my vision 'pausing' for half a second have all kinds of weird effects on moving objects? why don't they appear to stutter when moving?"
and the answer is simple! your brain has EVEN MORE UGLY HACKS on top of this to avoid you seeing that
If you've got a clock where the second hand doesn't "tick" but instead smoothly rotates, you won't see this. Because your brain recognizes it's moving and adjusts what you see to make sure it sees the "right" thing.
It's only really obvious with periodically moving things like a clock hand, because it's not moving (so not triggering the movement-during-chronostasis hack) but it moves at a set rate, so you can notive that rate appearing to change.
It's tempting to think of your eyes and visual system as a camera just dumping a video feed into your conscious brain but taht's so very, very not the case. What you think you see and what your eyes can actually see are two exceptionally different things.
The big obvious one being the blind spot. Vertebrate eyes are wired backwards so we've got a blind spot in each eye where the enrves enter into the eye. About 6 degrees of your vision in each eye is just not there, as there's no light sensitive cells there.
Do you see a blind spot, right now? No, you probably don't. Close one eye! There's now no way for the other eye to fill in the gaps. Still, no blind spot… Your visual system is lying, and making up content it thinks is there. You literally cannot see what you think you see.
Here's another one: You can see in color, right? (well, some of you can't. Sorry) You can see in color all throughout your vision, it's color everywhere?
Well, most of the cone cells (Which are sensitive to color) are in the fovea, a little spot in the center of your vision.
So outside of that center-of-vision spot, you have very little color perception. There's some but it's very limited compared to your main color vision. But I bet if you shift your attention to your peripheral vision right now, it's in color.
Your vision system is lying. It's remembering what colors things are and guessing and filling in the gaps. It's basically doing a Ted Turner colorization process on your non-central vision.
There's even weird effects like what's called "Action-specific perception". If you get a bunch of white balls of various sizes and toss them at people then ask them to estimate the size of the balls thrown at them, they'll have a certain size estimate, right?
Now repeat the experiment but ask them to try to hit the balls back with a bat, and suddenly all the estimates shift larger. They actually see the ball as bigger because they need to hit it. Their vision is exaggerating it to make it easier to see!
Which just goes to show, like I said, your vision is not a camera. Perfect accuracy is not one of its goals. It does not give any shits about "objective reality", that's not important.
What's important to the evolution of the visual system is any trick that helps you survive, no matter how "dumb" or "weird" it is.
So if you want an accurate visual representation of what things look like? Use a camera. Not your eyes.
In any case the original point was that while you might know this about your eyes being poor cameras that lie to you, you might still think that at least they're consistent, time-wise. They don't screw with your sense of time passing, just to make up for visual defects. NOPE!
If you can't get it don in time, turn back the clock and pretend you did. That's a perfectly good solution when you're the visual system.
BTW @/hierarchon reminded me of a neat trick with saccadic masking: go look in a hand mirror. No matter how close you bring it to your eyes, and how much you look around, you will never see your eyes move. You're blind during those movements. But you still think you are seeing.
She additionally pointed out that your phone's selfie-mode is NOT a mirror, and it has a slight delaye, so you can see your eyes moving in it.
And for fun, here's wikipedia's example of the blindspot. Stare at L with only your left eye, adjust the distance, and the R will disappear. You don't see "nothing" or "black", you see the background, because you expect to.
This is why laser damage your retina can be so insidious. Your visual system already can hide "holes" in your vision, what's one more to hid? So you damage a small spot of your retina and your visual system covers it up.
But since you didn't go "WELL THAT WAS TERRIBLE I BETTER TAKE BETTER CARE OF MY EYES" and stop fucking with lasers, you keep doing it. Eventually you accumulate so much damage that your visual system simply cannot manage hiding it all and your vision rapidly degrades.
The other reason lasers are so dangerous is that they don't necessarily trigger the same responses as regular incoherent light. Your pupil reflex is only triggered by some special cells in the center of your eye, so an off-center laser might not cause your iris to contract.
And infrared laser light is just as dangerous as visible laser light, but can't trigger your blink reflex. Your eyes automatically close when exposed to bright light, but they can't detect infrared light. Despite not seeing it, it still causes damage.
Anyway, back on how amazing and crazy your vision is: There was an experiment back in 1890 where someone wore glasses made with mirrors in them to flip their vision. After about 8 days, they could see just fine with them on. Their vision system had started "flipping" the image.
(I say flipping in quotes because it's not as simple as it started showing the pixels at the top row on the bottom row, cause our vision doesn't work like that) It only took them a few hours to get back to normal after taking these glasses off, though.
The last really fun part about this flipping experiment: your eyes already do it. Based on how our vision is wired, we should be seeing everything upside down.
We don't, but only because our visual system has had a whole life to adapt to this.
BTW, since a few people have brought it up: There's a great sci-fi novel by Peter Watts called Blindsight. In it humans encounter an an alien race they call Scramblers, who can move very fast and precisely, and they exploit saccades.
Because if they only move during saccades, we never see them moving. And since so much of our vision is based on just filling in what we think is there, if they stay out of the direct center of our vision, we'll just visually fill them in, like they were never there.
Check it out if you're into hard SF stories of first contact. It's got some really neat ideas about human vision, very unique aliens, the future of humanity in the face of perfect VR, and vampires. (Really, it has "vampires", while still being hard-SF)
BTW, remember how I said "vertebrate eyes" up there? Guess who has eyes which are wired forwards instead of backwards (have no blindspot), have an internal lens, and can even see polarization of light? Our good friends the Cephalopods!
#long reads#long post#not mine#humans are weird#human biology#human brain#the brain lies#human eyes#vision#sight#science is magic#stupid brain#objective reality#apparently our eyes/brain doesn't care about that thing#what a nuisance
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i just like to think that the rest of the baroque society doesnt like brain for silly reasons
special shoutout to this drawing for absolutely obliterating my gallery app and forcing me to restart my phone when i tried to crop it
#kingdom hearts#khml#khml player#kh remus#implied blayer#nept is fine with brain in reality but freyja and remus are like “excuse us thats OUR weird drifter??? find your own”#i didnt know this audio came from black butler tbh. rip#my phone watching me upload yet another plain drawing: i need to intervene#my art#i hate drawing players stupid hat PLEAAASSE#khml player; janus
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