#posting this one its own theyre so swag.

[carcarrot]

L-R: Ron Mael, Christi Haydon, and Russell Mael of Sparks photographed promoting their album, Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins, 1994

[meowonaise]

special birthday ling (i am very late)

[tiktowafel]

some 1b girl lineups so i can have all my little personal designs in one place :3 slightly inconsistent bc i drew them separately at first but fuck it we ball

no clothes versions that i made for myself to use as templates (yknow so i can draw clothes on top of them without having to draw them over and over again) and showcase my general appearance headcanons

how i think they like to wear their uniforms (looking at bakugo, UA seems pretty liberal about it so i get to have fun lol). obviously what they wear depends mostly on the weather but these are meant to be like,, their favorite combinations?

i really like the "long sleeve shirt with no blazer" look. kind of a shame no one in bnha seems to wear their uniform like this

the most important part!! the costumes!! putting the notes under the cut bc they ended up kinda long

i like Reiko's canon costume a lot, i just decided to give her fingerless gloves and make her kimono long and tattered for the spooky vibes. i used to also draw it with a reversed (right over left) collar bc that's how they dress dead people and Reiko's meant to have this ghost aesthetic but decided against it this time because maybe it's more culturally inappropriate than i think?? idk its not that big of a visual change so i'd rather play it safe

Setsuna is wearing my own costume design that i explained fully in an older post. i still like it, i just gave her spike bands on her legs instead of the same thing she wears on her forearms bc i decided i dont vibe with the total limb symmetry anymore lol

i spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to think up a redesign for Kendo only to settle for her canon costume with extra bandages/cloth wraps (theyre cool) and ordinary combat boots instead of the ones she wears in canon (i just don't vibe with them). i guess sometimes less is more or whatever

Pony is wearing @doodlegraveyard's awesome redesign :) pastel cowgirl swag

Ibara's design is by m0chicakes, i still think its amazing

Yui's costume also takes a lot from doodlegraveyard's design, i just decided to try blue as her accessory color to distinguish her color palette from my Momo design

Kinoko's canon costume is just *chefs kiss* so the only thing i changed was the color of her shoes. her sleeves are short here bc i thought it could look cute for a summer version of her costume, the winter version keeps the long fluffy sleeves. her spray guns were pissing me off so i decided not to draw them but trust me they're here in spirit

i might post winter edits for some of these later :)

edit: posted in a reblog!!

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

what type of youtubers would the trolls be? Karkat would definitely make rants and reviews of romance movies, Kanaya would make makeup or fashion tutorials, Sollux has an IT channel he made so people stop bugging him (nobody ever bothers checking it instead of asking him)

quick spitballed ideas bc this is such a cute prompt

aradia - reviews of inaccurate halloween decoration skeletons. theyre not rated on anatomical accuracy but by how much swag they have. most of her other videos are short clips of her livevlogging her day and telling short stories, but shes funny and witty so they do numbers. very low effort and low cost, but shes having fun.

tavros - CARD PACK UNWRAPPING. guy who in no way can afford his hobby but keeps getting these card packs for his channel. surprisingly relaxing to listen to while you have him minimized in another tab while you do something else. he goes over each card in the deck and their effects as well as rarity.

sollux - basically what you said. IT guide on walking through common computer problems. horrible mic quality, but really helpful information.

karkat - ABSOLUTELY would be a movie reviewer. no facecam but for whatever reason has CRISP mic quality. somehow NEVER peaks his mic despite all the screaming he does. he loves media analysis and getting pissed off over fandom drama so hed probably also do breakdowns of scandals in fandom spheres, and somehow almost getting sued.

nepeta - SPEEDPAINTS. and like. flipnote hatena style amvs. obviously very amateur but its a very cute art style and she has no concept of copyright infringement.

kanaya - makeup tutorials and fashion reviews. would definitely be like that one youtuber who reviews the accuracy of historical fiction dresses in film and tv. everytime the virgin mothergrub is in the background of her videos her comments are spammed with "MOTH MOM REAL"

terezi - animated shitposts. like. grinchs ultimatum, garfielf, shit like that. REALLY bright colors and shitty linework with windows moviemaker transitions. no one knows who she is and shes never done a face reveal so shes a total enigma. there are deep web theories that her videos are anti-empire propaganda.

vriska - flarping tutorials. genuinely. she goes over mechanics, spells, class breakdowns, even shares stories of her own flarp campaigns. VERY passionate about it and kind of has an asshole youtuber persona. posts an apology video like once a month then goes on like nothing happened. replies to every mean comment.

equius - weightlifting videos. dead silent. just grunting and metal clanking. no editing. addresses every comment in every video. lots of heavy breathing. very uncomfortable. almost like performance art in how desolate it feels.

gamzee - cooking videos. its as bad as it sounds.

eridan - showing off everything in his hive and talking about it. his guns. his outfits. ranting about pollution. each video is an hour long. its mostly just him complaining or bragging about the stuff he owns.

feferi - has a live feed of her cuttlefish pen going constantly. posts animal care videos. posts music. does challenges. her youtube is kind of an inconsistent mish-mash of content but one thing remains: you will watch her cuttlefish.

[fffanii]

10.04.24

heres that non breath oblige suitcase i mentioned in the last post!! what a silly fella. more rambles under cut ofc

GAHHH I LOVEEEE HIMMMMM sorry i just. WHAT A GUYYYY his hairs really messy cause when this song is aligned with the story he had cut his hair with scissors in the bathroom in the middle of the night because hes got that gender identity crisis swag i fear… fan eventually buys him a haircut tho cause suitcase goes to fan because theres drama in the grand slams!!! uh oh!!!!!!! who. who couldve seen THAT coming!!!!/s

im still trying to come up with what suitcases normal non-depressing songs are like and what songs would even fit that cause most of the songs besides the sad ones that i have decided for them are group songs or duet songs (excluding duets with vocasynths cause those are basically just glorified solos) and that doesnt count. i feel like theyd be pretty calm most of the time but i think having a few more aggressive songs would fit too… hm…

besides non breath oblige, ive assigned him last battle and o light, but im still working on the list, so those are the only ones i think wont change. maybe. and by ‘the list’ i mean the one in my head that i change whenever i need to. im so good at making aus

tbh most of what youll see of this au is gonna seem more like im making fanart. for my own au. if that makes sense because more lore-based stuff is so complicated and has been revised over literal years and could also change whenever i feel like it sooo i dont wanna have anything too set in stone…

i did mention in a previous post that characters are ‘linked’ to vocasynths, but for the life of me i cant decide who suitcase gets!!!! im thinking kafu… idk why… i just feel kafu energy… but ill think about it idk. if you wanna suggest any thats perfectly ok, but i have a mental list of whos linked with who, and although MOST vocasynths are in all sekais (its complicated for a variety of reasons) (because i dont want to put every utau in the sekai or have it be too complicated so each group has a relatively good group of vocasynths per sekai) (more than 6 though. how else am i going to make tetorei yuri real???) (and more vocasynths can be added with certain story beats and stuff but its not common) (and also for whatever reason if the character is the 4th in the unit, like how in pjsk theyre ordered a certain way, like ichika -> saki -> honami -> shiho, the last one’s link is EXCLUSIVE TO THAT SEKAI!!! i dont remember why i made that decision i think it was for reasons with the vocasynths being able to be as-close-to-real-as-they-can-get when exiting phones, like instead of just holograms, but its this whole complicated thing so idk why) (and i havent come up with an order for the grand slams) (which consists of the main four) (aka baseball nickle balloon and suitcase) (so idk how that works yet. oops) i dont want vocasynths that are already linked to other characters in other groups or in the same group to share a link. exception for groups outside of the main ones, like i have some rough concepts of bfdi character groups, who have almost nothing to do with the story excluding one specific character whom i will not name, but like if one from there shares a link with an ii group then idgaf yknow

these are a lot of rambles. jeez. uhhhhhhh i like this au a lot and i havent really shared it with anyone yet so i gotta get my crazy ideas out there yknow

also. for the last post. i nicknamed uminaoshi-fan ‘faoshi’, and nicknamed godish-fan ‘fish’ because i think its funny. they hate each others guts but in a homoerotic way yknow. how did i get here. i know how i got here. but how did i get here. anyway like and retweetblog if you loveeeee fishxfaoshi toxic yaoiii 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

[t4tpumpkinduo]

hi huri im having Thoughts so you get to HEAR THEM !!!! thinking about heartbreak trio body mods and the ways they express themselves... cq has a ton of tattoos that were a bit frivolous to get and they all look like theyre just there for aesthetic reasons but for her it was a reclamation of her own body and a way to make herself look "tougher" as she transitioned to her las nevadas persona... she also has a bunch of piercings for the same reason. i think if schlatt got any tattoos it would be for very specific reasons like quietly honouring someone/a memory/etc and i think she would have a tattoo of the manberg flag on either her inner wrist or the back of her neck. for piercings for her i think shed just have basic ear piercings and i think during manberg she would only have plain studs but then post ln she would wear like big dangly earings and shit. i also think schlatt with a clip on one of her ears goes hard as hell. something something you act like the owner/ruler but really that nation owned you. and then i think cwil has a lot of tattoos but theyre all like of memories or things that matter to her, like she has a huge lmanburg flag across her back and her army number on her arm or wrist and the pog 2020 logo on her neck and shit. she also has ear piercings and i think shed also get a nose bridge and eyebrow piercing but those are less meaningful and more for fun. on the same note schlatt wears a lot of rings and necklaces and shit and has her horns adorned a lot with jewerly to seem more powerful. cq doesnt wear rings (not anymore.) but she wears simple chains and band bracelettes and chokers. cwil wears a choker and not much else besides her piercings, theyre overstimulating to her (contrast to schlatt stimming with her rings and shit.) also finally schlatt has a cane post ln that she claims is only for aesthetics and its like gold with beautiful adornments and patterns and stuff but its really to help her walk even though the fanciness makes it impractical. cwil uses a cane but its just a simple engraved wooden one. cq probably needs a cane post balconey death ln finale but uses more of a staff with a huge 8 ball at the stop set in engraved gold. they HAUNT me

THAT'S RLLY CUTEEEEEE yr beautiful and intelligent mind ☝️i rlly get the through line w a lotta these and it's so so so cute n adorable yeas...cschlatt usual "idont even CAREEE" sweep but having the little adornments, the little staff that makes her happy. in MY beautiful mind, ilike to think he gets better w her disability swag and is able to like. Receive actual help and support and a cane and all that w/o recoiling Too much like. idont think she will ever fully lose the instinct of. well yknow. but i do think it can be significantly softened and i do think he can get that care more than he thinks. cq cschlatt matching manburg tattoos 👉🤨 💭 also in general i think cschlatt is just a fancy lady, gold jewelery gold on the horns gold necklace. anything for my princess (thinks abt my own art and wants her so bad i look stupid)

in my mind ermmm. i think early cwil is kind of a pussy so huge bodymods would've be a little difficult (like cq is canonically a weiner as well but i think he has a spiteful level of pushing through pain tht early cwilb doesn't TO ME.) but i do think cwilb would have like little personal things,,,like small and personal stick and pokes, that have him complaining and giggling the whole time, smthing done over lmanberg campfires that sorta thing. they're like smudged and messy and done by ppl like ctoms n cniki and he'll like run his hands over it and think abt stuff and EXPLODE. revival style he might push for more and more things for the sensation so ycan see the difference between the smudgy old stuff and the bright new pieces and the commentary on that in of itself. 🤨👉 my mind

FOR CQ i also think he's kind of a stick and poke weiner but he might get more yk...the making yrself bigger stronger and i've seen extremely cute fanart of like. hhlep. like cbad helping cq w body mod isms and cq going YEAHYEAH I CAN HANDLE IT!!! then crying badly. tthats kinda what he's got going on. i think he has a lotta jewelry and he's canonically mexican catholic which ppl can mald abt all they want but it's TRUE even in lnv so yk the adornments go crazy...rosaries gold chain cross and the like. i don't think he'd adorn his wings bcs i straight up don't think he'd even have them Out, but mb in quieter moments w ppl he trusts v v deeply he'd like doll them up gold style as whale. yeas.

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

Kabru?

favorite thing about them

hes honestly just so fucking funny like the way hes just like. the most sensible practical character in the entire story and anything he tries to do gets continuously curbed by the people around him operating on cartoon logic.

i also just like the way he thinks and interacts with people just like. getting excited about Knowing things but also being kind of controlling about the information he gets so that it can fit his own expectations and the way he reacts when things dont work.... i just think his attitude is really fun especially within a deuteragonist character framework

least favorite thing about them

uhhhh people who like him having bad opinions. personally i think hes the perfect man

favorite line

this whole page is really funny to me. back story

also similarly that one bit where hes with mithrun when hes explaining his backstory and hes like. ok well all these details are not important, but i WILL remember them because theyre interesting,

brOTP

i guess its not really a brotp but i just like the dynamic he has with mithrun because theyre both kind of like. "straight man" type characters who are meant to be more plain and straightforward than the rest of the cast but mithrun's like. an exaggeration of that with him being so dull that it wraps back around to kabru questioning it and finding it absurd. yknow. good similarities and differences between them i like how they bounce off each other

OTP

uhhhh him and all the random women he flirts with i think its funny that he gets bitches

nOTP

him and laios. ive made like 10 posts about why i dont like it in the past. yuuup.

also not too big a fan of him and mithrun romantically i think its funnier if theyre just like. two blokes forced to stick around one another

random headcanon

schizoid guy swag. ok?

unpopular opinion

YOU KNOW

song i associate with them

got a whole playlist for him that ill be annoying about. to pick a specific song from there. uhhhh gotta be crosseyed and painless

you understand?

favorite picture of them

i think the picture hes got in the card game is cutes.... i like it when hes drawn Cool in pictures haha

[froyocorp]

talking abt the cog ocs i posted today bc aughhhuu (<- has excitment that cannot be contained) putting it under the cut bc its long but heres the basic run downs of em all bc i never said anything abt em

baggage handler aka porter shes like my Main cog oc ig. she runs a hotel called the cutting suite floor in acorn acres and shes both the head of vacations for the company and their budget therapist. Therapy includes her going "awe :( that sucks. heres a free check in for a relaxing day at our hotel ^_^ Can you get back to work now" she is ALSO shipped with erclaim bc im a loser and i think he just stays in her hotel "haunting" it after being fired. she loves his pathetic swag

the bellhop boys aka moe larry and curtis are all walking stooges references. theres not much more to them theyre like porters very own satellite investors and they all annoy porter very much

goldbricker aka riley is a liar !!! scammer !!!!!!! his storyline is that he steals jellybeans from the toon bank and is trying to sell them back to toons at a higher price, as well as selling them to cogs as they are valuable (to toons. Not to cogs.) hes trying to run a ponzi scheme but no ones buying it rlly. hes also got the midas touch thing going on i legit think he actually can turn anything into gold bars so any attack he'd hold an item with, the model is golden & the attack is buffed

crown prosecutor aka princess marilyn no im not typing out her full name Shes just based on mary sue culture but i mean it so lovingly. shes a cog princess from "suitsor" and shes probably definitely 100% british. shes like a glorified name dropper as in she knows every manager somehow from past work or past schooling. she rolls her R's also shes so himedere so queen deltarune coded

aaand copyeditor aka tina shes so small so tiny so cutes. its one of them its/hers, has a cane, and is mute but in a cog way - her gimmick is she wouldn't have her own sfx! if shes speaking dialogue, its other cog's sfx and dialogue (eg., it would do an attack but say a holly voiceline - "oh looketh, a burnt boor" - and then next attack do a dave voiceline - "better not dance cold on my floor") she could probably stitch together voicelines like a tf2 old sfm. i cant pin down in my head if she hates toons or is neutral about them, as it never gives opinion unless it can parrot what someone else thinks that she agrees with at that moment, so i think its funny to think no one knows how well she performs bc shes so quiet

[tuxedokit]

okay, can you summarize dion's relationship with her hydro form pre reveal? how it changes as she finds out about it and grows and gets better at it (against her will)

ok pre reveal how dion feels about it lets give you some bullet points my good friend

age 7: discovery. good fucking lord. more confusion than fear. dion honestly thought that was the curse at work (since it happened when he fell into the water)

age 8: dion realizes this isnt the curse. more confusion than anything, but slowly becoming a bit afraid. honestly just thinks shes randomly blacking out or something. doesnt pay much mind to it.

age 9: okay this is getting annoying. terrifying, but you get used to it when youre scared so often. coming from an arachnophobe that had a very. uhm. crowded. home. yeah. dion is still scared every time, heart racing, brink of tears. but you get used to it

age 10: dion finally figures out what it is thats happening. figures out how to perceive the world in her watery form. raz walks by pond where dion is hiding. they can feel something, herself, being pulled toward him. dion can feel the hand. raz flounders. frazie pulls him out of the water. they leave. dion cries, a new horror seeping in. that was you. you almost killed him. he's only three.

age 11: dion is afraid, more than anything. he never knows when this "thing" will rear its ugly head. when he will melt away again. when he might nearly kill them again.

age 12: fear still courses through dions veins, but they've noticed thats what it likes. it likes fear, nerves, strong feelings. dion learns to try to hold them down. dion doesnt realize how hard that is going to be

age 13: welcome to being a teenager dion. have some mood swings to go with your predicament. isnt that fun? isnt that grand? being 13 is hard. its hard and no one understands. on the plus side? dion can sorta move around as a puddle now! and has kinda figured out how to perceive the world. so theyre not totally at the mercy of the world anymore!

age 14: dion finally has some control. not much, but some. the constant fear has once again paved the way for annoyance. being afraid gets so tiring, you get desensitized after a while. still scared. just. less compassionate to yourself for it.

age 15: dion is now more afraid of her family knowing than she is of her own powers. now that doesnt mean dion isnt afraid of himself. just that... family moreso. what if they hate me? what if they fear me? conceal, don't feel, don't let them know.

age 16: dion can fully move as a puddle now. swag! still horrifying, but at least now shes got mobility. also starting to learn how to control it

age 17: the maligula incident. dion is no longer afraid of themself, now instead wanting to strangle a certain someone.

and heres a bonus

post reveal: nona teaches dion how to change forms at will, as well as control where in a body of water her consciousness lies

[melissa-titanium]

Ive never watched mp100 so Idk anything about Mob but im genuinely curious, why do people keep drawing Mob & Six together as friends? (not hating on it btw I love it actually lol) im just curious as to how they would work as friends lol

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE. I DONT THINK IVE EVER ACTUALLY SEEN THAT FRIENDSHIP PAIRIG BEFORE ? ??? unless i am wildly stupid and rbed a post about it a while back... im not sure. w/e

six is obviously a VERY flighty kid, constantly ready to book it the hell out of wherever shes at. smart, determined, and after ln2 she won't stop for anything or anyone who could potentially slow her down. unwilling to form companions, after haivng already caused grief for two in the past.

i think shigeo's patience and general non assertiveness would leave them good friends. not only that but their shared experiences in hurting someone they love & self isolating as a way to not let anything like it happen again.

i feel like six feels she's at blame for rcg's death & the reason she dropped mono felt to me as like "you hurt me, i hurt you, it's better if we split so i don't do anything else" inadvertently causing a self fulfilling prophecy for the both of them.

shige hurting ritsu. his solution to having it never happen again is push down any sense of the thing that caused it -- his powers, and by extension, his emotions. some level of self isolation, aNOTHER self fulfilling prophecy directly accumulating towards meltdowns that have similarly devastating affects.

obviously i don't think they'd understand their similarities from a narrative perspective because they only have their own experiences to go by but. im not sure how they'd even meet. assuming six was out of the nowhere, somehow got trapped in a space with shige, i think they'd chill.

ofc six being six she'd lose her shit scared, but i dont think shige would have any reason to bother her. say theyre in the s&s office. she hides under a table or some shit. she recognizes hes a kid though obviously so its not like fuck, how do i kill him? fear its more like fuck, unfamiliar kid i could potentially hurt, what do i do?

shige's generally unintimidating aura and autistic swag would def help her chill. he doesnt need to talk, she doesnt need to talk, they just sit in calm silence. shige has always seemed like a steady calm figure and obv that would help six. autism to autism communication. non communication? ive always seen six as nonverbal or semiverbal. they send brain waves to eachother

i can totally see them just hanging out. how? not sure. considering six would probably try to find some way to kill any adult she sees or like crawl under benches or into trash cans to get away. six would definitely be afraid of shiges powers but thats whats cool about them is that he Almost Never Uses Them so at the point where he does end up using them shes probably chill enough around him that she doesnt freak the fuck out and start mauling him. its like befriending a stray cat except the cat is very much not a cat, it is a severely traumatized 9 year old who has never been to school and most likely has never seen anyone over the age of 11 who hasnt tried to kill her. its actually hard for me to think about how theyd be with one another ill have to think on this...

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HAHAHWHAHHA I DIDNT SEE THAT YOU WERE THE OP OF THAT POST . ALSO I KNEW HIS NAME WAS ARJUNA BUT FROM . THE MAHABHARATA ... ?? i remember reading that as a kid and only registering the part where they all marry the same girl and also when they all die ANYWAYS i would like to hear abt him if youd like to talk abt him i am intrigued by his pretty brown boy swag

HEHEHEH YESSS it was me all along! sorry i ... idk what came over me

most of fates major characters come from very famous, ancient stories (karna, rama, and ashwatthama are also in there along w some other flop fucking characters designs) or are notable historical figures.

the series is weird (for so many fucking reasons) but one part of it is that most characters are based off the stories they come from so while they have the knowledge and experiences from their pasts, their personalities can be completely different from how they acted in these stories or in real life. sometimes its for the better, most of the time its to fit a specific character trope.

arjuna is ... a case study bc we get rlly weird reductions to his character that take away from how he was in the original text. arjuna in fate is a character that had everything handed to him and thus feels that he needs to go twice as hard in proving himself which manifests in a very... messy hero complex that is further exaggerated by his perfectionism. he struggles in accepting the "evil/darker" (i dont even know where to begin w this part of the story) parts of himself and when he finally does learn to w the help of the MC its the equivalent to him learning to be vulnerable w others (or at least to the MC) and not deny who he is or become fixated on imperfections.

its a huuuuge change in his personality and after u do his story the dialogue that he says to u changes from saying he wishes to be alone forever, until the end of time to wanting to help the MC forever, until the end. hes a lovely guy

admittedly the quality of his writing varies greatly depending on which chapters you focus on but most of his characterization is based off his relationship w karna... which is honestly a bad thing bc that ends up being a major focus and leaves little for his own self to grow and develop. in its essence, he became too fixated on his duel w karna and felt that it was unfair that he was able to beat him as it was through a dishonorable and hollow victory. it messed too much w his own feelings of perfectionism and so he rlllllyyyy hates (?) karna and wants to battle him again. personally i think the distress over killing his own brother in such a "cowardly way" messed w him too much to create a horrible horrible relationship btw the two. theyre much better now tho in the storyline, not perfect and not even close to good but arjuna doesnt try to kill him on sight anymore. sometimes.

fate is horrible. i genuinely dont recommend it to anyone, but arjuna is great on his own. look at this pic of him, karna, and thomas edison (the lion in the back)

[aeirs-moved]

i think i could write akechi from saiki k really well because if left to my own devices i will ramble on and on and thats a key attribute of his character is that he doesnt shut up well that might be a mean way of putting it but nevertheless he is a rather verbose individual and i like that about him thats swag honestly i love how he owns that like thats so iconic i think hes a really funny foil to saiki for that reason because saiki is so quiet like the dude does not speak out loud well dude might not be the right way to put it kuriko isnt particularly chatty either like its not like its about him being a man well akechi is a man and hes very chatty so like obviously not but i was saying that in reference to me referring to saiki as a dude that it could be potentially slightly imprecise as saiki is sometimes kuriko and kuriko is kusuo and as such they have the same personality as in theyre both not particularly chatty. can you imagine if i formatted all my posts like this like this is what comes out of my brain like i just choose to arrange things into a way that doesnt physically hurt to read but would you guys still love me if i posted big huge blocks of text instead of short sentences like tbh the tdlr of this whole paragraph would be like one or two sentences not that im not changing topics as i write or am rehashing stuff its just very long for some very simple points and it outlines information that could very easily be extrapolated (idk if im using that word right) from context clues.

[urmomification]

SWAG ANOTHER DREAM SMP AU FIC IDEA THAT ILL NEVER WRITE POG

this is a very long post please im so sorry my brain it just

(tw for like slight possession n shit)

(sorry its all jumbled i write all of these in discord to my friend and copy paste them here please if u have questions ask me im always willing to talk abt this shit please it haunts me)

(context: i saw a tiktok abt the hc that both dream and techno are gods of some sort bc theyre mentioned in the tales of the smp by karl a time traveller and my brain just ran w it)

going back to the techno and dream are gods thing right so dream is a vessel for the god dream xd (??? work in progress youll know what im talking about at some point its really funny tho uve def seen clips of it) and he was possessed?? by the god after the server started (when he started going from super friendly with everyone to control/power hungry) when he started sacrificing everything for power so no one could have power over him? that was the god making him do it bc the god was terrified of not being in control since theyd lost it all to techno in their past. thats why we never see dream and techno fight and why we see dream extend help and support to him at times as well as respecting his boundaries and such bc theyre scared of techno (again w the best of 10 duel reference, techno killed the god in a past life which is why the god has been forced to use a human vessel to get anything done on the mortal plane) but when something that powerful spends pretty much any amount of time in something mortal and mundane like a person, the host body starts to change (hence the mask) i like to think that the god would be akin to that of a biblically correct angel?? like the ones w multiple eyes n shit yk so after time things start to happen to normal dreams body he gets extra sets of eyes and he gets taller and overall his body seems just Too Small for whatevers inside of him and thats why he (hc) started wearing the mask in the first place he knew something was wrong w him but he didnt want anyone to know even tho they would most likely help him he was ashamed that he was different in the first place so he started wearing the mask once the other eyes showed up. and i think that the god would talk to dream similarly to how technos voices work yk? except its just the one voice instead of many many small ones. and again with the mask thing when he lost to tommy and they took him in, part of his mask broke to the point where u could see just a bit of the right side of his face but enough to see that it Wasnt Right there were two eyes where there shouldve been one and spots on his cheeks bright enough to resemble stars and where the color of his pupil should have been is just a sickeningly neon green with nothing else behind it. so they let him keep the mask even tho they already know something is wrong but it clearly makes him Very Distressed when asked to remove the mask or told to give it up. blah blah blah god harassing its host bc it got them caught and thrown in a prison and dream goes ever so slightly insane having to share a mind and body with a literal ancient god w a vendetta against everything hes built whos forced him to sacrifice everything he loved and cared for out of fear yk the usual prison shit and then techno comes a long and breaks him out or whatever but on their way back to his house he drops a really cryptic line abt how 'its nice to see an old friend again' and 'i thought i got rid of u for good last time' and dream is just ???? what are u talking about?? weve never been friends and youve never gotten rid of me? what. until techno spins around and just 'im not talking to you im talking to the thing inside u' or whatever and dreams eyes flash some brilliant gold or sumn and boom this is ur fellow god speaking how may i help you and dream xd (that feels so wrong to say but) and techno bond or well ig just talk abt how the past centuries have gone and ig while xd is fronting (??? i think itd kinda be like DID in a sense w multiple people being able to front yk?) dream is in a sort of semi conscious state but still hears everything going on around his own body until hes thrown back into the drivers seat (i think that xd would only be able to front for short periods of time due to the vessel n shit that makes sense right) and hes so confused someone please help him hes just a dude who happened to get possessed by a god someone help him so when they finally get back to technos house he sits dream down and explains the best he can without literally melting dreams brain. which would also play into the 'technoblade never dies' bc hes. literally a god. mortals cant kill him unless they have idk some sort of super weapon idk and blah blah blah xd gets what they want and finally has the ability to leave finally leaving dream literally the shell of a man with no home friends materials or anything with techno to basically take care of him until he reaches some semblance of stability again (which would take ages, realistically (wdym realistically) going from normal, to a god sharing a body with you and speaking in you brain living as a single being together and hearing their thoughts, to back to normal but with all the memories of what you did and what they made you do and also no more god speaking in ur head it would take a hot sec to recover from) so he lives with techno (whos, not to mention, another god) for a while until he can fend for himself again and after a good year or so passes and no one hears from dream they start to look for him and see what happened bc he went from the biggest threat on the server to just. gone. no one knows where he went after whatever he did and they want closure. is he dead?? who knows. so george and sap set out looking for him and decide to ask techno for help since hes good w directions n shit also he was the last person to see dream alive so he might have an idea of where he is and they walk up to his house and knock on his door and techno opens it and just stares at them he knows who they are, dreams talked about them before but hes never met them really so he talks to them, getting through the polite hellos how are yous before sap finally asks 'do you know what happened to dream? no one knows where he went and we just want closure' techno huffs and tells them to wait there he (this is the basement door im using his arctic tundra house in my head) goes down the ladder to the second basement, they can hear him talking to multiple people (ranboo phil dream) but cant tell who everyone is before coming back up the ladder, back to the door. he tells them to wait outside he needs to get something first (its dream hes getting dream) theyre standing out by carls stable when the door creaks open and dream steps out looking around for who the fuck could possibly be looking for them he betrayed everyone and most people thought he was dead who could possibly be here asking for himself and not ranboo or philza and when he steps out, his green hoodie (memento made by ranboo to help him cope w the loss of the voice in his head) catching the morning light off the snow and he was happy and then he saw them standing by the house hed grown to call home at least for now he breaks. he missed them so so much it hurt. he never expected to see them ever again much less them come looking to see him but hes scared he realizes he doesnt know what to say there is nothing to say he fucked them all over he ruined everything and then hes being hugged. they missed him too. they dont forgive him jsut yet but they missed him and thats enough for him right now. the three of them stand there just being in each others presences and techno creaks the door open to make sure they arent trying to kill each other and sighs and leans against the frame smiling. hes happy again and thats the best he can do for him. he invites them all in and offers to explain everything to them to try and ease the blame off of dream bc in all honesty it was his fault but xd made it far far worse that it should have been (a bit late but foot note abt xd i think that they would be an idle god until someone w intense feelings of powerlessness and insecurity like awoke them from their techno induced slumber and inhabited dream to help him fulfill his desires for power and control) and by the time he and dream are finished its late at night and sap and george are ??? so u were possessed by a god who techno killed centuries ago in a duel and it amplified ur feelings of insecurity and ur thirst for control to the point of isolating urself from us and destroying everything everyone cared abt?? also technos an ancient god who lusts for bloodshed but also makes turtle farms in his free time?? are we getting this right????? and techno and dream are just yea thats abt it glad this all made sense then they all go to bed (its a small house dream has a lil shack like ranboos and sap and george somehow slept over there for the night) and in the morning sap and george leave again but promise to come back, they still arent ready to forgive and forget bc even tho it wasnt all his fault his emotions getting away from him is what caused this all in the first place so they do need time to process now that they know he isnt dead and dream continues to live near techno in almost full independence and eventually moves back with his friends even tho many still hate him. hes happy and for now thats enough. another foot note; even after xd leaves his being, he still has the extra eyes, glowy freckles n is xtra tall n shit that cant just be reversed but now that hes himself again these things take their tolls on human bodies so i think hed have something at least similar to arthritis bc of how his bones were literally manipulated bc of how strong ethereal magic or whatever is. so he would still wear the broken mask but he takes it off now and is ok with it being off hes working on getting better now that hes himself again and everyone living w/by techno is helping him with that. also i think that he would get blinks of xd's memories like from when techno was killing them and have sumn like ptsd panic attacks from it and techno feels super guilty abt it but theres literally nothing he can do except apologize and after the first few times dream stopped him from apologizing bc it is his fault but he didnt do it to him so it doesnt matter to dream at least and they live in pretty much harmony until dream finally moves back in w george and sap the end. he also started wearing the mask in the first place bc of the extra eyes but he played it off as being uncomfortable around new people and not wanting them to know what he looked like until he trusted them (bc that literally makes sense irl how funky is that) so sap and george never pushed him and when they caught him without it on on the rare occasion they wouldnt pressure him to leave it off or anything even tho they already knew what he looked like (when they respect ur boundaries </3) they just assumed that it was insecurity (it was but also mans had like 3 eyes so) and just left him alone

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Woman's 'real' body transformation stuns

An Australian fitness blogger has earned praise from fans after opening up about her weight gain and revealing her life is so much better now. Kate Writer shared a series of stunning transformation photos with her 131,000 fans, showing what her body looked like in 2014 compared to the current day. In the older snap, she looks smaller telling fans she was stuck in a phase of being obsessed with dieting, hoping that the thinner I was, the happier Id be. However, in the most recent photo, shes gained weight, and while she said at times it was hard, she explained she would much rather be curvier/bigger/thicker if it meant she could be free from diet culture. View this post on Instagram Losing weight is not the cure for poor body image - When I was stuck in the diet mentality, I kept thinking that the smaller I got, the more Id love myself. That the thinner I was, the happier Id be. That the lower that number on the scales was, the worthier I became. And you know what, I got thinner, and thinner, and no matter what, it was never enough. Id always find something to pick at, to improve on, to fix. More weight to lose or a lower measurement to work towards, how messed up is that!?! . - Changing your body does not magically improve your body image, in fact for me it made it a whole lot worse It wasnt until I realized that my worth is not dictated by my appearance or my weight, that I was actually able to focus on other things! I was able to care less about my body, and more about who I was and things that actually matter in my life. . - Think about it, those with a healthy body image arent the thinnest among us, theyre the ones who know that they have value and worth beyond their appearance. Because being thin or losing weight is NOT the cure for poor body image, its not really about your body at all... A post shared by Kate |AUS (@dedikated_lifestyle) on Jun 5, 2019 at 3:30am PDT When I was stuck in the diet mentality, I kept thinking that the smaller I got, the more Id love myself. That the thinner I was, the happier Id be. That the lower that number on the scales was, the worthier I became, she wrote. Despite losing more than 50kg, Kate said it was never enough. Id always find something to pick at, to improve on, to fix. More weight to lose or a lower measurement to work towards, how messed up is that!?! It wasnt until I realised that my worth is not dictated by my appearance or my weight that I was actually able to focus on other things. I was able to care less about my body, and more about who I was and things that actually matter in my life. Kates brutally honest post has clearly resonated with her followers, as the teacher from Long Jetty, New South Wales was inundated with praise for being real.

media_cameraKate Writer is happier now shes gained weight, telling fans she thought she needed to be thinner to be happier. Picture: Instagram/DedikatedLifestyle You are an amazing person to follow! I find myself obsessing over who I used to be then you help me snap out of it and realise Im happier now, one said. You look gorgeous in both, but you got your swag back with the current pic for sure. Such a positive role model, another wrote. Another said: Totally relate to this, Kate! Though I still struggle with the topic This SPEAKS to me. Killin it in 2019 girl! someone else shared. Thanks for sharing this. Such an important and relatable message, another agreed. In another post, Kate described in more detail how she felt about the change to her body image, telling fans gaining weight is just a side effect of living your best life. For me, when I stopped dieting and started eating intuitively, weight gain was the result. After years of deprivation and dieting, it was inevitable that I was going to eat beyond the point of fullness and give my body all of the foods I had restricted for so long, she said. View this post on Instagram Sometimes gaining weight is just a side effect of living your BEST life - For me, when I stopped dieting and started eating intuitively, weight gain was the result. After years of deprivation and dieting, it was inevitable that I was going to eat beyond the point of fullness, and give my body all of the foods I had restricted for so long. But you know what, that phase is only temporary, it will not last forever! Dont get me wrong, it can be daunting, but my god it is worth it! - I let my body go through its own recovery, in its own time. I didnt freak out when I gained weight, I didnt feel guilt when I had a day off the gym, and I didnt give up when I over ate. I simply let my body do what it naturally wanted to do. Without stress, without obsession and without over thinking - Sure gaining weight and not fitting into your old clothes can be hard (like REALLY hard), but comparing my happiness, relationship with food and overall lifestyle-I can genuinely say that my quality of life is SO MUCH BETTER NOW . - I would much rather be curvier/bigger/thicker, be free from diet culture and have freedom around food, than be lean and consumed by weighing less, seeing those numbers go down every day and counting the calories in my lettuce leaves. . - Heathy looks different on EVERY BODY, so trust yours and let it do its thing A post shared by Kate |AUS (@dedikated_lifestyle) on May 3, 2019 at 3:18am PDT She went on to describe how gaining weight can be hard but when comparing her happiness and quality of life now to what it was before, it is so much better since she stopped dieting. Kate who still eats well and trains but has zero obsession with diets shared her weight loss story with news.com.au in 2016, explaining shed initially gained weight because she loved takeaways.

media_cameraKate is now a body positive ambassador, sharing her journey of self-love with fans through her popular Instagram and YouTube channels. Picture: Instagram/DedikatedLifestyle Her decision to start dieting came when her then size-20 frame began giving her health issues, explaining her feet once became so swollen, she was left in crippling pain and unable to drive. She went on to drop five dress sizes and used intense Crossfit workouts to maintain her weight loss without having to go under the knife. Now a size 16, shes embraced her natural figure and become a successful body positive ambassador, sharing videos about her journey to self-love on her YouTube channel Dedikated Lifestyle where she said she no longer weighs herself and has accepted her flaws.

media_cameraA bride bravely decided to clean her $2000 dress at home with impressive results, using $15 worth of products. Picture: Supplied Earlier this year Kate went viral when she shared her incredible $15 wedding dress hack after telling news.com.au she refused to pay the ridiculous fees to have her dress cleaned professionally. News.com.au has contacted Kate for comment. [embedded content] Do you have an inspiring body positive message to share? Get in touch at rebekah.scanlan@news.com.au or you can continue the conversation @RebekahScanlan Originally published as Womans real body transformation stuns https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/health/blogger-praised-for-real-body-transformation-photos/news-story/ace0528c920bbef59924e478daf51e40?from=htc_rss

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Woman's 'real' body transformation stuns

An Australian fitness blogger has earned praise from fans after opening up about her weight gain and revealing her life is so much better now. Kate Writer shared a series of stunning transformation photos with her 131,000 fans, showing what her body looked like in 2014 compared to the current day. In the older snap, she looks smaller telling fans she was stuck in a phase of being obsessed with dieting, hoping that the thinner I was, the happier Id be. However, in the most recent photo, shes gained weight, and while she said at times it was hard, she explained she would much rather be curvier/bigger/thicker if it meant she could be free from diet culture. View this post on Instagram Losing weight is not the cure for poor body image - When I was stuck in the diet mentality, I kept thinking that the smaller I got, the more Id love myself. That the thinner I was, the happier Id be. That the lower that number on the scales was, the worthier I became. And you know what, I got thinner, and thinner, and no matter what, it was never enough. Id always find something to pick at, to improve on, to fix. More weight to lose or a lower measurement to work towards, how messed up is that!?! . - Changing your body does not magically improve your body image, in fact for me it made it a whole lot worse It wasnt until I realized that my worth is not dictated by my appearance or my weight, that I was actually able to focus on other things! I was able to care less about my body, and more about who I was and things that actually matter in my life. . - Think about it, those with a healthy body image arent the thinnest among us, theyre the ones who know that they have value and worth beyond their appearance. Because being thin or losing weight is NOT the cure for poor body image, its not really about your body at all... A post shared by Kate |AUS (@dedikated_lifestyle) on Jun 5, 2019 at 3:30am PDT When I was stuck in the diet mentality, I kept thinking that the smaller I got, the more Id love myself. That the thinner I was, the happier Id be. That the lower that number on the scales was, the worthier I became, she wrote. Despite losing more than 50kg, Kate said it was never enough. Id always find something to pick at, to improve on, to fix. More weight to lose or a lower measurement to work towards, how messed up is that!?! It wasnt until I realised that my worth is not dictated by my appearance or my weight that I was actually able to focus on other things. I was able to care less about my body, and more about who I was and things that actually matter in my life. Kates brutally honest post has clearly resonated with her followers, as the teacher from Long Jetty, New South Wales was inundated with praise for being real.

media_cameraKate Writer is happier now shes gained weight, telling fans she thought she needed to be thinner to be happier. Picture: Instagram/DedikatedLifestyle You are an amazing person to follow! I find myself obsessing over who I used to be then you help me snap out of it and realise Im happier now, one said. You look gorgeous in both, but you got your swag back with the current pic for sure. Such a positive role model, another wrote. Another said: Totally relate to this, Kate! Though I still struggle with the topic This SPEAKS to me. Killin it in 2019 girl! someone else shared. Thanks for sharing this. Such an important and relatable message, another agreed. In another post, Kate described in more detail how she felt about the change to her body image, telling fans gaining weight is just a side effect of living your best life. For me, when I stopped dieting and started eating intuitively, weight gain was the result. After years of deprivation and dieting, it was inevitable that I was going to eat beyond the point of fullness and give my body all of the foods I had restricted for so long, she said. View this post on Instagram Sometimes gaining weight is just a side effect of living your BEST life - For me, when I stopped dieting and started eating intuitively, weight gain was the result. After years of deprivation and dieting, it was inevitable that I was going to eat beyond the point of fullness, and give my body all of the foods I had restricted for so long. But you know what, that phase is only temporary, it will not last forever! Dont get me wrong, it can be daunting, but my god it is worth it! - I let my body go through its own recovery, in its own time. I didnt freak out when I gained weight, I didnt feel guilt when I had a day off the gym, and I didnt give up when I over ate. I simply let my body do what it naturally wanted to do. Without stress, without obsession and without over thinking - Sure gaining weight and not fitting into your old clothes can be hard (like REALLY hard), but comparing my happiness, relationship with food and overall lifestyle-I can genuinely say that my quality of life is SO MUCH BETTER NOW . - I would much rather be curvier/bigger/thicker, be free from diet culture and have freedom around food, than be lean and consumed by weighing less, seeing those numbers go down every day and counting the calories in my lettuce leaves. . - Heathy looks different on EVERY BODY, so trust yours and let it do its thing A post shared by Kate |AUS (@dedikated_lifestyle) on May 3, 2019 at 3:18am PDT She went on to describe how gaining weight can be hard but when comparing her happiness and quality of life now to what it was before, it is so much better since she stopped dieting. Kate who still eats well and trains but has zero obsession with diets shared her weight loss story with news.com.au in 2016, explaining shed initially gained weight because she loved takeaways.

media_cameraKate is now a body positive ambassador, sharing her journey of self-love with fans through her popular Instagram and YouTube channels. Picture: Instagram/DedikatedLifestyle Her decision to start dieting came when her then size-20 frame began giving her health issues, explaining her feet once became so swollen, she was left in crippling pain and unable to drive. She went on to drop five dress sizes and used intense Crossfit workouts to maintain her weight loss without having to go under the knife. Now a size 16, shes embraced her natural figure and become a successful body positive ambassador, sharing videos about her journey to self-love on her YouTube channel Dedikated Lifestyle where she said she no longer weighs herself and has accepted her flaws.

media_cameraA bride bravely decided to clean her $2000 dress at home with impressive results, using $15 worth of products. Picture: Supplied Earlier this year Kate went viral when she shared her incredible $15 wedding dress hack after telling news.com.au she refused to pay the ridiculous fees to have her dress cleaned professionally. News.com.au has contacted Kate for comment. [embedded content] Do you have an inspiring body positive message to share? Get in touch at rebekah.scanlan@news.com.au or you can continue the conversation @RebekahScanlan Originally published as Womans real body transformation stuns https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/health/blogger-praised-for-real-body-transformation-photos/news-story/ace0528c920bbef59924e478daf51e40?from=htc_rss

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amplify: Putting people first

Good work deserves recognition. Sometimes with a thank-you note. Sometimes with a special shout-out in a team meeting. And sometimes with an opportunity to toot your own horn—or bang a gong.

“Billtrust ‘gonging’ began in 2012 when our CEO, Flint Lane, purchased our first gong for our headquarters in New Jersey,” said Administrative Assistant Tiffany Modeste. “The gong is meant to recognize great performers throughout the company for a job well done or for going above and beyond what’s expected.”

The gong is just one of Billtrust’s methods of showing employees appreciation. They also use internal “money” and an online store to let employees know just how much they’re valued.

“We have Billtrust dollars, which we call ‘BT Bucks’,” Modeste said. “They’re given to employees, and the employees can use them to buy Billtrust-branded swag in our online store.” Employee recognition gift options include a Columbia® Full-Zip Fleece Jacket.

A Columbia Full-Zip Fleece Jacket is a warm and cozy way to thank employees!

The results of the recognition program speak for themselves. Billtrust attributes its recognition program to winning a Best Places to Work NJ award four consecutive years and appearing on the Inc.® 5000 every year for the last decade.

  Appreciation = engagement

Study after study shows what Billtrust already knows: appreciating your employees is good for morale, good for productivity and good for your bottom line.

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “Seventy-nine percent of employees say recognition makes them work harder, and 78 percent say recognition makes them more productive.” And that’s great for your business, because companies with engaged employees outperform those who don’t by 202 percent.

Choosing what to reward

Frequently, companies only award one achievement: tenure. In fact, 87 percent of recognition programs focus on this single area.

But giving recognition only once every one, five or 10 years simply isn’t often enough to keep employees engaged.

Research shows employees should be praised at least once a week.

And while it’s also great to reward people who make the most sales or work the longest hours, that ignores a lot of opportunities for praise. After all, if employee recognition items are only used to recognize the “winners,” the people who are doing their best to improve may never get a chance to shine.

At Billtrust, managers take every opportunity to let employees know their work is appreciated. “Managers and supervisors have BT Bucks that they can hand out whenever they see an employee being remarkable—whether it’s for coordinating a project or just offering a helping hand to a coworker,” Modeste said.

Billtrust goes so far as to make minor alterations to their reward system to call out the values they want to encourage. “In the past, during Breast Cancer Awareness month, we printed pink versions of our BT Bucks and handed them out to anyone who wore pink,” Modeste said.

You can do something similar in your own office by handing out awareness pins for an office cause and offering employee recognition gifts or donation matches to people who wear them on a certain day.

  How best to recognize employees

When you have a good reason to praise an employee, it’s almost always best to do so immediately and publicly. In fact, 80 percent of millennials prefer on-the-spot recognition over formal reviews.

That said, be sure to make every attempt to recognize employees in a way that makes them feel comfortable. While some people enjoy having their accomplishments announced on social media, others would prefer a private email. But if the employee is comfortable with public recognition, doing so is always to your benefit.

When it comes to major recognition, Billtrust goes all out. “Not only does an employee get to hit the gong, but they also get recognized in a post detailing their accomplishment on the company’s internal social media page, receive BT Bucks to spend in the company’s online store and receive a ‘CONGRATULATIONS YOU’VE JUST BEEN GONGED’ lapel pin to show off on their company pennant,” Modeste said. Lapel pins and challenge coins are ideal employee recognition items to commemorate great work.

Give employees a shout out with custom lapel pins!

“At Billtrust, it’s all about our people,” Modeste said. By pairing that value with employee recognition gifts and a gong, Billtrust has become a thriving, award-winning workplace.

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