#scarey-oke

[gifsofhubris]

[natnat98]

back in february when i made this meme and it became my headcanon

i don’t know why i haven’t posted this to you guys but here it is

[victusinveritas]

The Adventures of Tintin and the Horrific World of H.P. Lovecraft

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A Scottish graphic designer Murray "Muzski" Groat has created an incredibly fun series of art that takes Hergé’s classic comic character Tintin and throws him into the terrifyingly awesome universe of H.P. Lovecraft. I'd love to see how these stories play out! Maybe Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's next Tintin film should be The Adventures of Tintin: At the Mountains of Maddness.

Watch our brave adventurers flee from shoggoths, Deep Ones, fish folk, ghouls, Formless Spawn, Mi-Go, Elder Things, nightgaunts, Old Ones, Outer Gods and foreigners (i.e. non-Anglo-Saxons) as they face many an existential crisis regarding their insignificance on a cosmic scale!

What eldritch horrors await our companions as they unearth the secrets from untold aeons in the dark corners of the earth? Will they heroically flee from these abominations from the stars, or will they choose the merciful oblivion that is death by throwing themselves on squalid pavements or shooting themselves in the head? And what trick does Nyarlathotep have up ‘His’ sleeve this time?

Find out in The Weird Adventures of Tintin, by H. P. Lovecraft!

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Covers:

* Tintin in Innsmouth (originally posted 27 September 2010)

* Muzski's note: "Zadok Allen (the town drunk and ex-sailor) could be played by the villainous Captain Allen."

* Tintin in R'Lyeh (originally posted 5 October 2010)

* Muzski's note: "PLOT ENDING: Tintin uses a crowbar on Cthulhu (BONK!), while Captain Haddock kicks his groping tentacles and curses alot. Cthulhu see's stars and hears little birds chirping, and slumps back into his tomb. Our heroes slam the cyclopean door shut, then have a wee chuckle to themselves, while walking back to the boat. Once they sail off, only Snowy notices the great city of R'Lyeh sinking back into the sea, before he puts his head down for a long nap while the sun sets in the distance. The End. 🙂 "

* Tintin and the Reanimator (originally posted 29 October 2010)

* Muzski's note: "PLOT: Ok, here we have Tintin and Snowy investigating the dubious activities of (the misunderstood) Herbert West, who loves bringing dead things back to life with his lizard-gene-soup. Eeeek!"

* Tintin at the Mountains (originally posted 18 November 2010)

* Muzski's note: "PLOT: Tintin and Snowy travel to the newly discovered and very mysterious Mountains of Madness, in Antarctica. They are looking for a missing expedition party from the Miskatonic University. Their bold leader and their friend, Professor Calculus was with the doomed party when everything went wrong."

* From Beyond (originally posted 2 December 2010)

* Muzski's note: "THE PLOT: Prof. Calculus is too busy working on a top-secret project at the Miskatonic Uni involving an expedition to Antarctica, so he asks Tintin and Captain Haddock to check in on his old friend Prof. Crawford Tilling-Ghast. To make sure he is well. Crawford has recently been slandered by the scientific community, for his outrageous cosmic theories, and becomes a recluse. Our heroes visit Crawford, but they are surprised by his bizarre machine, humming away suspiciously with a feint violet glow around it. Something is wrong! Crawford acts strange. His house staff have disappeared. Snowy keeps barking. There is a sudden sense like that of a rushing incoming train. Slowly, and slippery, something ghastly appears above Captain Haddock's head....!"

* The Shadow Out of Time (originally posted 9 December 2010)

* Muzski's note: "I based the layout on the June 1936 issue of 'Astounding Stories' magazine cover, where Lovecraft had this story first printed -> [link] "

* The Dunwich Horror (originally posted 3 January 2011)

* Muzski's note: "PLOT: Prof. Calculus is currently teaching at the Miskatonic Uni. on the subject of Antarctica. He contacts his pals Tintin and the Captain about several strange goings-on in the area, which seem to relate to the scarey Book Of The Dead - The Necronomicon (the uni library holds a copy). At night, the mutated Wilbur Whateley has broken into the library, looking for THE BOOK, but he gets savaged by the watchmen's dogs. Our heroes here this, but are too late. Wilbur dies, muttering "YOG SOTHOTH!" Snowy sniffs around, and spots a very old book lying on the floor."

* The Whisperer in Darkness (originally posted 18 May 2011)

[halliserres]

like ok i know it is completely unrealistic to expect devs to stay working at bioware for 15+ years but the idea of all the senior writers fucking off is just a Little bit scarey to me

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 2/20/2024

i don't usually use these writeups as a memory aid, but this week it's good bc most of last week was a blur of applying to jobs and playing breath of the wild

listening

i have several playlists that are several hours long with a couple different flavors of the really specific kind of instrumental music i need to do mass quantities of data entry. these are now all poisoned by horrible memories of my last two jobs so i'm slowly building new ones. a great candidate is OASIS, off the REDLINE soundtrack. REDLINE (2009, dir. Koike) is an extremely horny anime movie about driving really fast, being true to yourself in spite of corporate overlords, sports betting, and fucking.

i think this was a scene with background club or cafe music? electronica instrumental with a little bit of a groove and a very particular mid-aughts sound. you know when powder coating is extremely matte but also extremely sparkly? spotify.

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reading

Samantha Cole (previously Vice, co-founder of 404 Media) has a beat that's focused on sex tech, sex work, deplatforming of sex work, and kink community beefs that manages to be both detached and very, very kind. i trust her to write about any kink community in a respectful and fair way, and even when she visibly doesn't understand the appeal of a kink she writes about them in a respectful and fair way. a great example of this is the furry adult baby diaper community being deplatformed by patreon.

but her most recent investigation, "can this shitty vibrator actually give you malware?" is fascinating. any job that can legitimately claim vibrators as a buisness expense and perform a teardown is fascinating to me.

what a tremendous and endlessly fascinating world we live in.

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watching

there are many movies on tubi that i have like. name recognition of but have never actually seen, so i'm starting to work my way through things that aren't noir or obscure westerns. like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, dir. Lee).

the practial effects in this movie are insane. the wirework is insane. wirework insane. this is the dreamiest and most beautiful chase/fight scene i've ever seen and they're zipping around a bamboo forest.

we're going to have to live with this imperfect screenshot ok this laptop is Extremely old. the interior sets often look like theater sets (complimentary). just a stunningly beautiful movie with the sickest action scenes you’ve ever seen. plot a little choppy but forgivable imo. i know this is regarded as one of the finest movies of all time, not just one of the finest martial arts movies of all times, so saying anything feels a little like giving it a dollar store plastic trophy. i liked it and i had fun. watching a critically acclaimed non-american good movie is good for the brain steeped in lackluster american westerns, i think.

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playing

much like in real life, in breath of the wild i am refusing to do much towards the main quest and am mostly puttering around looking for shit to upgrade my outfits.

unlocked rudania, did not go inside.

what's with this little. sword graveyard??? on the northeastern edge of the caldera??? the only thing on that island is an octorok?? did it kill like eight guys???

finished richard scarey's tarreytown :) including that horrible rich guy who wanted me to kill some guardians for ??? reasons. i am pretty confident about killing hinox (is the plural of hinox, hinox?), wizzrobes, and most lizalfos if i can get the drop on em but i am Not confident about killing actively moving guardians without guardian arrows, which is an expensive way of doing business. due to reliably one-shotting the wizzrobes with revali's bow, i am running into the interesting problem of always having a glut of magical weapons. which leads me to go fuck around the extreme hot and cold areas those magic weapons are good for. and less fucking around the normie areas i actually want to fuck around.

got the good sword at thirteen hearts, i stopped short at twelve hearts gone and the deku tree called me a pussy. i unfontunately did not screenshot that. hey did you know there's a korok on the deku tree's head whose life's purpose seems to be riddles?

:(

and now for quite a lot of horse talk.

dodged like four lynels taking Ganon's horse up the northern edge of the map to get a pic of the leviathan.

caught the white horse, we are such pretty pretty princesses together. i think it's very funny that the gerudo fanciest weapons and hylian royal regalia look so similar. purple and gold eternal.

did you know if you feed your horse an endura carrot you get extra spurs???

i was looking for a 5 star speed horse but after catching and releasing four different solid black horses this is the best one (4 str, 4 speed, 5 stamina) i found. maybe I’ll shoot for a bright chestnut with lots of chrome for my speedy horse, the equine equivalent of a red convertible.

very funky conincidence on the grasslands behind the lord of the mountain's spring. not identical, bc the lead horse doesn't have facial markings, but what are the odds of that huh. i wish grays in this game didn't look so chalky and washed out, i love a gray horse in real life.

i think it's some bullshit that you have to fight your way into this spring, get told "go get a dragon scale", deal with all that, fight your way BACK into the spring, and then be presented with a Major Test of Strength shrine. c'mon just give it to me!!!

game continues to be very bad at spitting out riders next to horses or donkeys EXCEPT!!! for this doctor. i didn't know hyrule had traveling doctors! i quite honestly didn't think they had the techonology, given that the state of medicine in hyrule is very mortar and pestle based!

the game gave me a tooltip like "make friends with dogs! they'll lead you to treasure!" and i was like What but it does actually work, you just have to target them in the camera first and then feed them several hunks of meat. bonkers game. how many other goddamn mechanics are there that i've missed???

next steps: shrine hunting. i have like 50 out of 120 which is wild to me. i played this game two years ago, got to about a hundred shrines, and managed to forget where they all fucking are. yes my shrine sensor is always on. there's probably at least twenty in central hyrule, which is not a place i touched much on my list playthrough, also the last two memories i need are in there. i have filled out a good chunk of the compendium (completely filled the materials pages) but idk if i will be a completionist about it. there are so so so so so many weapons variants. i am cheating a bit and looking up the animals i missed (mostly a lot of bugs and fish) but one of the entries is for patricia, the royal sand seal. i would not have ever thought to take a picture of the named sand seal, i'm sorry game but that's a bit obtuse.

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making

not much progress on the cross stitch or job fronts, but since i finally have a balcony, i planted peas and beans from @shiny-good-rock and basil from @morrak than have been languishing in a box for several years, the basil had an okay germination rate so my fingers are crossed re: peas and beans.

i am a bit annoyed about marigolds. maybe it's a bit too early for them here, or maybe they're not as popular as they were in the northeast? i tried like five different big box stores and indie nurseries, only one indie nursery had any and they were very pest-ridden. i would like marigolds, as friends for my tomatoes.

it is currently 11:40 PM CST as i type this so tomorrow i'll add something with a garden layout and what varieties i planted.

[putting-wheatley-in-places]

i was about to do another "oh ermm put him in minos face hole!!" but then i forgort that you know who i am so.. PUT HIM IN THE MOST SCAREY, UGLY, DISCUSTING, PUTRID, HORRENDOUS, SPOOKY, DARK, DEEP, PICTURE YOU CAN FIND!!! AHAHAHAHAH

Like… on me? Right now? Uhhh ok

Helptale - Possible Asriel design(????)

They just hanging out, being buds

[lucifersloveydoveyhomie]

Ok i love lucifer, i would risk my life for him and his brothers, man i would go against diavolo himself for Lucifers sake….but i aint ever rocking his dog😭

I have a big phobia about dogs after seeing so much dog attacks and some trauma…like i hate big dogs/fear them…

So i wanna make this head canon for people like me,

What would lucifer do if mc was scared of dogs + Cerberus?

- he would at first think that u were like his brothers, scared of him due to his ungodly size/scarey dimesner, and order you to walk him

- HOWEVER he would notice how u shake being close to not just Cerberus but other dogs who come by. He notices how u often avid looking at the dogs eyes and how ur superstitious about being close to a dog

- he would put it together wuickly that ur scared of dogs he wouldnt get rid of his dog ofc, but he would just respect ur boundary and not have u share the responsibility of walking his dog

- if its not so bad he would try to atleast get u to not be scared of cerberus cause he isnt like any other dog but by seeing how severe ur fear is he would stop.

Bonus:

- his brothers would over hear and try and say how oh how scared they are…they cant do it either but lucifer wouldtell them to just deal with it ☠️

[caretaleandotherstuff]

Are you scared of @maria-the-puppet

Maybe maybe not

Ok kinda

They scarey sometimes /aff

[twig-gy]

Shipping you with Soul. Have fun!

anon i’m gonna die in here i Could Not fix him. you think i fuck religious people? huh? you think i fuck religious people nonnie? /silly

literally give me 2 seconds of being in the same room with him i’d be muttering ‘ademiere save me get me away from these people save me’ under my breath. or not so under my breath. he scares me.

look all of hms are. not good with strangers. they scare me in general like i think theyd kill me. like i imagine heart as talking/rambling the same way i do so maybe the endearment of that would buy me a few seconds..?

anyway anyway imagining he likes me. cause this is shipping. that still scares me like we all know what soul does with his love. i think a soul that loves you is perhaps more scarey than a soul that doesn’t i’d just. yeah… scarey……….

tlsa soul would be the best version of soul thatd be. ok. like i wouldnt be afraid for my life and thats all i can really ask for when it comes to meeting hms

apostasy soul would be the same as normal soul except i’d see apostasy heart and ohhhhhh that would be. if i were in apostasy i’d try to ask mind for help but that scares me since. he’s busy with his divorce. so i’d probably just lock myself in a room and play jtoh. ademiere…. ademiere save me…… tbh that’s prob what i’d do with all hms. don’t wanna bother them n provoke them into killing me

[redraven393]

catching up to Philza Minecraft Qsmp Streams Vod

30th June ya'll I've been sleeping my days off these past few days after the exam cause my body just crashed down

I have missed so much shits on the QSMP stuff holly hell the fuq happened

anyway LETS START WHOO

Welcome home PHILL

oh hey the Flower Fall shirt looks cool

dadza had been rambling about space

QSmp time

so many Flower creatures

KELP will HELP

dadza isn't sure about the slogan

LOL Forever

CHAYANNE AWAKE

AWW CHAT

ma boi I miss yu

TALLULAH WAKE UP

the"sir" stuff is Tallulah's admin right?

TALLULAH BABY HOW ARE YOU

Tallulah will get the whole solar system at this point

Chayanne shrine

AW NO TALLULAH

Holly that is so many Chayanne

the Crows love his son

Tallulah BACK!

WHALE WATCHING?!

AW TINNY TALLULAH WITH THE SAMBRERO

Chayanne and Chayanne

ah so they cloned themselves

oh god what happened

YEAH Ramon Saved the day such a good little hero

Chayanne why?-yeah that's fuq up

WHY ARE YOU KIDS WANT TO SEE A CROCODILE

?

did they fight a crocodile before???

don't use shaders kids

use you dragon magic kids- HE'S HERE

dangerous mission

omg Tallulah noo

yeah scold her Chayanne

magical trip

oh shit he's invis

nooo Ramon it's not drugs

EYYY he's HERE

Kids get up

oh, Mike had a barber?

wait why would Fit go to a barber?

ugh sea mission is scary

Ramon we don't kill whales they are endangered

"There is no shame in leaving" thankyou Fit

yes Ramon Pls you all in one life

Chef Chayanne lets gooooo

oh yeah good idea Tallulah safety first

Oh shit Chayanne didn't have one

Shave it off??

Noodle Soup!!! i want noodle soup today

oh god wat happened in the debate??

don't jinx us phill

ahh so Phil is in team Foolish-Phil noooo

I like that the kids always go for the trampoline first

HELLO MINECRAFT PHILLZA WE READY FOR ADVENTURE MINECRAFT PHLIZA

nervous abluoeto-RAMOOOONNNNN

what is there a TNT canon-wait Ramon-wait Chayanne-kidsss-oh shit-oh okay thank goodness-OMG KIDSS- CHAYANNE-OMG TALLULAH

good lord, I'm aging-omg Phill

oh no the solar system is here

bunch of manly men with boats

clean coal

boat timeee

oh shit the WHALE-DRIVEEE-Oh shit-omg these kids are killing me-oh shit CHAYANNE-oh noo TALLULAH

yeah two whales is enough

okay get cooking Chayanne

did ramon just trows away a tusk???

RAMOONN NOOO

waiting on Tallulah

its revenge for Baghera???

oh nooooo the whale

HOLLLY SHIT THE JUMP

omg

the Whale was gunning for it

ITS BEEN SO LONGGGGG

TALLULAH YOU BACK SWEETIE

either her or the whales

ohhhh Seafood menuuu

the trick to defeat the monument

ohh the seaside stuff had been decorated

off to the monument we go

ok here we go-ramon with the bomb-you two old men shut up-milk squid?

omg Fit is an Alpha and Phil is a Beta-someone pls shot me

Ramon works fast-creepy ghost fish-yey Phill killed em

things have been pretty smooth so far

OMG RAMON NO

Mission donee

HAIR CUT TIME

emotional support for the bald man lets go

wat? a giant squid?

lol Phil has trauma taking care of more than 2 eggs

HI CELLBIT

Fit and Ramon is a dangerous dad and son duo

Yummy~~~

WAT!!!! oh shit-

THAT IS OK CELLBIT

HI RICHA

really love the kid-ah of course burning village

another VIDCON TRIP in French

ohh a NEW video Game made by Cellbit pog

OMG RICHA HAPPY BIRTHDAY

oh no scarey barber

Dollified Richa

oh no the bike-Phil is taking revenge on Mike

Holly hell they fast ZOMING

wat?-OMG OH SHIT-that's the train? so cool

Hi mike hi Pac-OH GOD THEIR HAIR

YAEH PEER PRESURE-phil really cant say no to Tallulah huh??

TRAIN TIME-oh no out of fuel?-RAMON NO-TALLULAH NO

aww sweety

omg law suit evaded pog-omg the safety protocol is being ignored left and right

oh no Chat broken

HE'S IN

OH NO TALLULAH-subway surfer omg-the album omg-she is so her dad's child

Train conductor Chayanne LETS GO

RAMON PUT YUR ARMOUR ON-and stop griefing the Brazilian

"boys will be boys"

egg cats-sewer egg-hi Richa-OMG ITS RADIATION??

ohh it's done???

aww cute richa moment

hi cellbit-egg for the cake lets gooo

OMG BLOND BADBOYHALO

HE's BALD MARKIPLIER-PINK BRAID OMG-he feel Bonita

PHIL'S turn-Fuq HIM UP FAM-Dangerous

oh no Richa lock them in

love that Chayanne and Tallulah is the model good kid eggs like they are literally the cousin that every parent compares you to

Riddle time!-omg-Comedian Chayanne-HAH GOT EMM

A MONTH!?-until the election?-wet stone lol

HEY AYPIEREE-Ramon no

yeah TECHNICLY CORRECT-OMG FIT NO-the BELL HAND LETS GO

well maybe you will have feathers like that one dragon

lol everyone ready with a camera-omg good lord-fallen off Phil lets go

CELLBIT is YOUR TURN

dot mess the white he says-oh no that could be true

oh no RICHA LOOK THEM in

oh no yu okay?-noise canceling pog-aww Tallulah

oh Will is in Poland??-STOP BEING TALENTED AND GOOD

hello there-omg the Yaoi land is getting to them all

the voice is the problem or the catfish is

YEAH ARTIST RICHA APPRECIATION

no meta-gaming Phill

AWW SO CUTE

CELLBITS HAIR CUTS DONE-OMG LOL HE CALLED IT-THE CAT EARSSS OMG-EARING TOO

Worse than the torture he says lol

Furry Cellbit lets go

Richa Party lets go

turtle eggs?? oh it's from dapper,

omg he's is keeping it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHAA- yu did perfect Phil

2 MONT LETS GOO

Mike no not at the eggs bday party

HOLLY SHIT PAC AND MIKE ARE KILLING IT

THE GIFTTSSS-so many foods from Chayanne-HOLLY SHIT RAMON

omg the mix they do with the flutes is so cool

What was that a radio?-a pancake?

Hi BADBOYHALO-loblond besties-omg Cellbit lol

HI DAPPER-the twins are fighting that's okay I guess

PHOTO TIME

cool beach they really did good

omg wat?-is that guy riding a dead decaying bird?-hu

wait-wat oh fuqin shit they're back-the Kids oh no -oh thank god thanks Bad

omg those fukers are back

OH FUQ OFF

yeah you jinx it Phill

oh god they can't hurt him

OMG THE KIDS

oh no he's going

OMG it's GOING TO THE NEST-omg it's going there

oh no the thing is trying to go inside

on the roof -where is it-fucker son of ditch hole bitch

bastard ditch suker- are the Kids safe in their room???

FUCK ALL OF THESE MOBS ARE ANNOYING

the thing still didn't catch any damage-oh fuq off he's trying to hurt the kids using the ghost

OH WAIT-OH FUQ-its in the window-oh okay but fuq

Leo?? oh god they are targeting her-omg Leo's Room was broken-just get lost already

WAT? TAKING PICTURES?-THAT BASTARD BITCH-OMG IT REALLY TAKING PICTURES

oh good lord Tallulah Sweetie I'm so sorry you have to see this

ok, I think it's gone now-you okay Chayanne?- THANK YOU FOREVER

Tallulah Darling I'm so sorry-okay it's gone thank god-are we safe?

ok so Leo and Pomme are targets

aww Tallulah darling I'm glad ur safe-okay back to safety

fuq that was fuking horrible-yeah that is annoying- yu jinx it

a wat?-omg defup-lol-the VOICE-multiple gegg nice-ah yes put him in the cage-oh he is not there?-lol is a zoo now

Phil that is not a lullaby

WE LOVE YOU TO KIDS BYE

the hotel is fuqed-Forever we need you

oh god its getting stronger

okay get ur rest old man

[dexalyys]

my name (sharkie) is completely unrelated 2 plushstarfever and its soooo scarey whenever people start talking sharkie (from plushstarfever) and im like r they talking abt ME??(they’re not) (sorry if this is weird btw i just thought it was funny )

HELP ITS OK I GET U ….. ONE OF MY SIBLINGS NAMES’ IS SHARKY 😭

[maxiepkmn-moved]

dude this is embarrassing but what was your old URL i dont remember following but we're mutuals im wandering around the scarey dark woods and you are my guide rn

take my hand its going to be ok. i used to be maxiepkmn :]

[ambafaerie]

ifbrd:

kickingshoes:

More fanart!

Our favorite parts of Gravity Falls are when Grunkle Stan and the twins have family time (Scarey-oke has been our favorite). I really want to see more stuff like that: what if Grunkle Stan had to take care of the when they were little???? Younger Stan with salt and pepper hair corralling Pine babies!! I want it all!!!

Just about cried when I saw this! ADORABLE!!! WELL DONE!

ifbrd:

kickingshoes:

More fanart!

Our favorite parts of Gravity Falls are when Grunkle Stan and the twins have family time (Scarey-oke has been our favorite). I really want to see more stuff like that: what if Grunkle Stan had to take care of the when they were little???? Younger Stan with salt and pepper hair corralling Pine babies!! I want it all!!!

Just about cried when I saw this! ADORABLE!!! WELL DONE!

[inquisitorismone]

ok before i go to bed short rundown of where everyone is

ismone is down south uhhhhhh trying to stop the end of the world LOL

most of the inquisition team is with her. i'm holding out a small hope that cass will show up in nevarra city when we get there but otherwise they are all down south

ismone probably got josie's whole family out of antiva when the antaam took over which is now scarey because the entire south is overrun by darkspawn LOL. probably skyhold still remains a pretty solid home base (they stopped using it for a while but are now back to it)

briala (puppeting gaspard) is keeping things locked down in orlais to the best of ismone's knowledge but she can't keep up with politics

massif is fighting along with ismone and the inquisition (minus dorian, who is dealing with shit up north)

elharen and cullen and their 4 babies are running that home for templars whose memory is going as well as a waypoint for tranquils and cured tranquils. but given the darkspawn they probably retreated to skyhold

anders, hawke, and baby carver are still in kirkwall, which i imagine closed its gates to defend from darkspawn (thanks aveline); i like to think justice and anders have come to an agreement and now justice is typically quiet unless he Needs to jump out. meanwhile bethany (and qunari husband?) are out fighting darkspawn with everyone else

we know where isabela is; i suspect fenris is going between rivain and minrathous, helping the shadow dragons from....the shadows. he doesn't gaf about elven gods he never did

i like to think valanthe cousland, halfway to a darkspawn, showed up on the streets of denerim and started killing other darkspawn and finally like. saved the queen + king consort and their kids and they were terrified til fergus was like "....val???" and now they have a personal bodyguard who is also rabid with the taint<3

yes alistair made it out of the fade. morrigan helped. kieran is with him and they are safe. kieran is looking after his father who he like. he knows alistair is his father but also doesn't really know him so he calls him by his first name and isn't like. affectionate with him but like. that is alistair's boy and he knows it. i think alistair was in some way really wounded after leaving the fade and has never been the same

uhhhhhhhhh let's see who am i missing. i want merrill to be a solas supporter have i said this. i think it makes sense for her character

anders hears about lucanis and is like oh so i'm not even special anymore am i

where the fuck is zev he should be in this fucking game. i hope he's getting fat and happy and fucking all the time somewhere on the non-occupied beaches of antiva

wynne is dead, sten got coup'd, leliana is the fucking divine

aveline is in charge in kirkwall (canon), sebastian can fuck all the way off

bull is primarily with the inquisitor but i THINK he takes dorian to seheron after the dragon attack minrathous; cole, sera, vivienne just helping the inquisitor and trying not to die in the south

i might write something that flashes around to everyone but i need to finish the game first

[re1ayanam3]

Night 2

Ok so i went back early, needed to rest after that crazy halloween. Stayed in, watched discovery of witches on netflix, fell asleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night and found that i could not move. Was in a sleep paralysis state, there were at least 4 benjamin franklin looking spirits floating above me.

I wish i were kidding, i was fucking freaked out, they were not scarey, more goofy and curious.

What I did not like was being trapped inside my body, i tried to scream, in the end i croaked like a frog and finally fell asleep.

I slept with the lights on for the remainder of my stay. Did some research online, apparently the hotel i stayed in has a history of ghost sightings.

[audio-luddite]

Tubular Dude!

If things go to plan I should be getting a set of glass bits 3/4 of a grand worth tomorrow. So not surprisingly I am thinking of the ARC beast and the tube world thing.

Add to that this morning I read an extensive message from the tube Guru about why tube amps do not work right when built "conventionally". They are all like that. I wish (hear that PT) he would share more widely his wisdom.

Background PT is an engineer who designs this stuff. His personal equipment is what he built. His main amp is a big (dangerous) tube amp with zero feedback. It uses all sorts of expensive and clever work arounds to solve the basic tube problem. Expensive if put into production. (Dartzeel sells an amp that costs a large fraction of a million!!) Just DO IT!

There is a basic tube problem. It has to do with the transformer iron and copper thing that lets the high voltage tube beasts talk to speakers of conventional design. Most tube amps use transformers to match impedance which is important. (hey you transformerless fans keep quiet here.). Transformers cause phase errors especially if there is negative feedback. If you ever took calculus and did imaginary numbers it is that stuff. Summary it is never right.

Welcome to the real world.

Editorially insert. I did a direct coupled electrostatic speaker that works directly with FN high voltage. No transformers needed droogs!

Scarey though!

OK so for all the talk and belief tube amps have a problem. All of them that use negative feedback. All current type available have this problem. They are all wrong. At least with respect to perfection.

But they sound lovely. Usually. Often. Sometimes not at all.

Right now I am listening to an LP recorded in 1976 that sounds great. Rich deep. Pop/folk/rock. Cat Stevens. There is ONE tube in the preamp line. The amplifier is the Franken-Amp. A tweaked 240 Watts / side of transistors. It is good. It is high end. Tomorrow I will listen to in on the ARC with 8 power vacuum tubes. That beast checks a lot of tube boxes. Configured as triodes biased to class A in normal conditions.

It is a shame 99% of people buying this stuff have no idea what that means. True shame.

I will love the sound if it does not explode.

Swinging back to the LP thing. Whatever the stream is missing I have it back. Is it my experience and preference or is it real?

What is real. Where is a ZEN Koan when you need one.