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[1000sunnygo]

Wanted to send this when the volume released but I forgot and was just reminded from your other post about it; but here's the OP School vol.9 Sengoku bonus if you want it! (imgur /a/wiVrfD2) It's spread through the volume, not back-to-back - part 1 after ch.40, p.2 after ch.41, and p.3 after ch.44

One piece Academy Vol. 9 Extra: Principal Sengoku's Picnic

Doing great service to the fandom once again, thank you so much 🫡💕

[spookygibberish]

Horotmu-Pavam of Solēsne was a Southern Throne born of the union of Unbodied Horotmu of Solēsne and Headless Pavam of Hatab, and was one of the most famous Solēsne Throne, much to the despair of House Solēsne. They are known best for their failure to synchronize, and the resultant death of a House Venvin scion at their hands, or rather teeth. Horotmu-Pavam has become a character of academic interest, a case study on the art of matching Headless and Unbodied, and a dramatic illustration of the consequences should a pair be ill-considered.

[inkyami]

I’ve made a deck for the slavic themed Mafia game — each character is from classic fairytales and epics. Part 1 of ? (Not really supposed to reveal the whole deck)

𖧷 Ivan Tsarevich 𖧷 Koshchei the Deathless 𖧷 Solovey (Nightingale) the bandit 𖧷 Rusalka

[Part II]

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[artharakka]

2024 🩸🌱

[kelliealtogether]

What we now know:

Ronan's snake scales are on his right arm apparently, according to the art accompanying the short story

The story is from the perspective of Casey, who lives somewhere coastal where everyone is having the same collective recurring dream

Blue and Gansey are gallivanting around doing ??? and they tip Ronan off about weird dream stuff

Ronan is wandering around (with Chainsaw) addressing said weird dream stuff

He stays at the Airbnb-ish thing Casey's parents have to look into the collective recurring dream

He apparently still doesn't have complete control over what he brings out of his head, because he does bring back part of the collective dream that starts growing on his arm

The Bryde dream mask thing makes an appearance when Casey helps a bro out so Ronan can dream something to address the dream stuff growing on his arm

Theme: Do you stay in a place and try to make it better, or do you leave to save yourself?

Adam is mentioned by Gansey in passing: "If my friend Adam was here, he’d have some science.”

You can preorder f(r)iction here and the digital copy is available for download now when you preorder the physical copy or when you buy it on its own. Physical copies look like they'll ship November 15th ish.

[malcontentonline]

Naruto doodle dump:

The next one is a reference to this fanfic I wanted to do a design for his seal and it became a whole thing.

these next few are doodles from my own silly time-travel fanfic I'll probably never write

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

I present to you.... Ghost Mabel AU

Not What He Seems. Mabel floats up in front of the portal, finally declaring that she trusts Stan. Not even a moment later, the portal fully activates, blasting everyone in the basement away.

Mabel, who is the closest, gets hit with the strongest of the force.

She gets slammed against a wall, hitting her head, and falls to the ground. It hurt a lot at first, but she's okay. She gets up and walks forward.

Dipper, while being momentarily distracted by the person coming out of the portal, quickly notices his sister isn't at his side. With a quick glance around, he spots her.

"Mabel? Oh my gosh, Mabel!!" He sounds scared. He runs towards her.

"I'm okay, Dipper," Mabel assures him, reaching out to grab his hands as he approaches.

Dipper runs into her embrace—No, he runs through it.

Mabel is shocked.

She turns around,

and then she sees it.

She sees herself, lying on the ground, just as she was a moment ago.

This must be some kind of crazy dream.

But no.

Within a few minutes, Dipper, Stan, Soos, and this weird new guy who looks uncannily like Stan are gathered around Mabel.

No, not her. They're gathered around her body.

Her lifeless dead body.

Fast forward a couple days. Mabel has been hanging around as a ghost. For whatever plot convenient reason, Dipper is not sent home. She talks, knowing no one can hear her, but pretending to be part of conversations anyway. What she wouldn't give to be alive again. What she wouldn't give to at least tell her family that she's here.

She's slowly figuring out what she can do as a ghost, trying to get Dipper's attention, but the first person whose attention she catches his her new Grunkle Ford. He just writes her presence off as ordinary paranormal activity. Ford blames Stan and Stan blames Ford. Dipper blames them both.

If ghosts stick around to complete unfinished business, maybe Mabel's can be to fix this family. It's the least she could do, since she at least takes some of the blame for breaking it.

She'll do whatever it takes. Whatever she can.

But, as things slowly start to get better and relationships begin to mend, Mabel begins to feel very afraid. If this is her purpose, what will happen when that purpose is fulfilled? Will she fully pass on? Will she never get to have another conversation with her brother ever again?

They'll probably figure out it's her at some point as she gets better at being a ghost. She has to communicate in very interesting and impractical ways. When Dipper realizes it's her, instead of being annoyed by silly hauntings like pushing pencils off of the desk, he's relieved that she's there with him, and will pick them up with a smile. She can't do much, but every time a room gets a little bit colder, Dipper knows he's not alone.

@dipperpines-kin @masontheevildm (who commented on the other post)

[addysadness]

Just a quick reminder of the sinister things Mclaren leadership (Brown,Stella) have said regarding Safety Concerns since the start of the season:

China 2025: Lando’s brake were failing - To the point he said “It was scary,” “It’s like my worst nightmare when the brakes are failing. I was losing two,three,four seconds the last couple of laps,so I was a bit scared. I survived and made it to the end.”

How did Mclaren react? - Lando reported the initial brake issue on Lap 47: saying “My brake pedal is going a bit long.” by Lap 54 Will Joseph said “Lando the brake situation is getting critical,” by Lap 55 Lando reported his “pedal is going flat” - he managed to nurse it home (holding off GR) .

Zak Brown’s reaction: “yeah I said to Andrea I was like well …its not the worst thing in the world” - In a very upbeat cheery way when your driver is in media saying it’s his worse “nightmare” .

Jeddah Qualifying - Q3 - 2025:

Lando crashed into the wall at Turn 5 on his first flying lap 

In a extremely unstable car - he raised issues about in February 2025.

Zak Brown “He said he was fine on the radio, but the car is a little bruised,” 

Lando was discharges straight from the Medical Centre to the Media Pen - where he didn’t remember the crash,his radio message or getting into the medical care. Was visibly wincing and dazed/confused. Exhibiting major concussion symptoms both then and the next day, before the race he was still “sore” and was in a lot of pain after the race not helped by fireworks, he was cutting interviews short due to visible discomfort. 

The team made a clearly in shok, dazed driver be grilled by journalist (they they are already aware contributes to narratives them and they have peddled)

Plus this very weird post they uploaded on twitter before being deleted:

Miami Grand Prix Race Weekend - Free Practise 1 - 2025:

Lando was sent out In FP1 with two torches/flashlights, loose in the cockpit. 

You have left so many tools in the cockpit,” “Everything is just falling apart.” he said. He then pulled it to the pits with the tools in his hand (which actually got Mclaren away with no FIA penalty), the mechanics then went to pit him where he said “

 “Just a little mistake there,a little silly, a little embarrassing but all good,” - Zak Brown, laughy tone. 

This is extremely dangerous if the loose tools got jammed under the brake pedals leading the car to go straight into the wall (in a car he already feels uncomfortable in) that could lead to a severe crash. Additionally, we have seen this like 2009 in Hungary with Felipe Massa. 

Not a laughing matter…

https://www.reuters.com/sports/formula1/mclaren-give-norris-tools-leave-them-car-2025-05-02/

This has all happened since the start of the season - take what you want from this what you want.

[crunchybeards]

In lieu of your most recent art post, do you perhaps have some Nestor and Rafta thoughts to share with the class...? :0c

Oh man do I got thoughts to share with the class. Mainly sad but something fluffy too :)

Long rambling about my fave load bearing straights with slight spoilers and a TL:DR at the end:

With regards to Nestor and Rafta, I always consider it a greater tragedy than I do an all out romance. I know I've already gotten quite a bit of infamy (kinda lol) about how much I just talk about character dynamics and themes of the game and everything else in between. But why these two especially compel me is how, at least to me, I saw them as this narrative bridge between the cursed and non-cursed if that makes sense.

But to expand a bit about what I mean by a narrative bridge is that, as I've said many times before, cursed individuals are still very much people, it's just that their physiology and psychology have been altered drastically. The game hammers it so many times that some cursed individuals are still people and it is a gamble but ultimately a good thing to treat them as such. And meeting somebody who is very much capable of having a crush and shooting her shot whilst still being cursed was just very sappy and heartwarming to me. We've seen cursed individuals be capable of the full (not full but like surface level full) range of human emotions and expression. We see sarcasm, apathy, friendship. Mutt's Fish and Chips and the campfire boiler room are filled with interactions, dialogue and dynamics that proove this point. We've seen cursed individuals in standard human relationships but we've never seen an actual romance up to that point from cursed individuals post witnessing/ contact. (I'd count Lyle but that crush predates the Visitor by who knows how many years) This shows that cursed individuals are very much capable of being people in every sense of how we perceive our fellow man. It cements their status as people, sentient beings worthy of giving a damn about.

I choose to believe that Rafta did not intend to seize control of Nestor like that. From all of Rafta's dialogue she seemed too lucid to want to do any harm. To me, it seemed like it was genuinely unintentional, like she might not have even been fairly aware that she was cursed to begin with, that's what her dialogue implies at least. It seemed she might have just gotten too close to Nestor when he looked into her pipe and direct contact might've triggered something worse in her. So for her to take control of Nestor's body was most likely another instance of a cursed individual loosing control of their body and attacking/ harming other people. Jeanne is a very good example of this exact thing happening.

It makes me genuinely sad to think about because the Visitor's effects on society were far deeper than what is initially presented. Not only does this set the precedent that cursed individuals will be discriminated against but there will be pervasive paranoia amongst the non-cursed. Being sociable has far greater consequence than before. Sure if you hung out with a stranger before there's a chance they'd harm you in very human ways. But now as a non-cursed individual death isn't even the worst thing that can happen to you. This is slightly unrelated but it's an aspect that I can't ignore when thinking about Rafta and Nestor.

But as I've said before in a previous post, I do believe they could've made it work if it weren't for the ultimate reality (at least as of posting this, I'm still holding out hope there's a proper quest for these two and Eugene in a patch/ update) that Rafta takes control of Nestor's body. They could've been friends, they could've been romantic partners or they simply could've been acquainted with each other's presence. But we don't get that. We see Rafta seize control of his body and puppet him around. It's another cursed individual hurting an innocent non-cursed person. It's a budding relationship (romantic, platonic, acquainted etc.) being destroyed before it even starts. And seeing something be unwound both because it's my own/ the player's fault for telling Nestor to go and because Rafta couldn't control herself is tragic. It was preventable and yet to deny somebody of their feelings feels just as painful. By intentionally not giving Nestor that letter you send a message about how you feel about Rafta. It's as though you're telling she's not worthy of romance because of what she's become and you have the authority to decide that because you're normal. Even if that's not your thought process or intention by not giving Nestor the letter, you're still disregarding Rafta's feelings, there will always be some level of disrespect by not giving Nestor the letter. This disrespect ranging from unintentionally invalidating Rafta's feelings to completely dehumanising her, by seeing her as lesser than. You go through a whole quest, you search various levels of the apartment for this oddly specific stationery. You go through quite a bit of effort, which is an indication that you care about this quest and by extension Rafta to be doing all this. And as soon as this letter is drafted you say you're not gonna do that? You're just not gonna complete the quest after stringing this woman along, giving her a bit of hope with each piece of stationery you give her. That's fucked on so many levels.

Don't take my words as gospel, these are just thoughts that I have about these two. To me it's always been about how every interaction in this game is a microcosm of the greater reality of the game's world. It's not just a romantic tragedy between two people but it's another reflection of how relationships (applicable to all relationship types not just romantic) have been destroyed and eroded. That you can't even so much as date somebody without having some form of defense if you're not cursed. There's an erosion of trust of not only those close to you but to those you don't know. You have to have some level of trust in order to even try a first date and this breaks that trust completely. Yes there are examples of how people hangout despite it all, but that's all been cursed individuals hanging out together, you never see non-cursed people doing that other than Sam. The separation is understandable but it's clear.

I'd go deeper into that whole tangent about the erosion of relationships but then that goes into a connected but still separated from this post's territory that I already received an ask about and am genuinely excited to talk about. So that's a yap for another day.

But I do have more positive thoughts about the two :)

Here's a compressed list of some personal headcanons and ideas of mine:

Nestor was initially very hesitant to put his head next to the pipe so they instead compromised by having him sit next to the pipe and just talking. They'd just talk about whatever comes to their mind, they just wanted somebody to talk to in all the isolation of the world.

Nestor was camping out in the bathroom because he was understandably terrified of all the cursed individuals roaming the apartment. The dude was probably very relieved to get that letter because he just wanted some form of normalcy in all the chaos. "Like sure, talking to a girl through a pipe is weird but at least she's not a monster so that's normal enough for me." is what I imagine Nestor's thinking to be. And going off of that, Rafta absolutely would've hidden the fact that she is in fact, one of those monsters that Nestor about. Like some part of her eventually figured out that she was cursed, even if she doesn't want to fully accept that. She eventually confesses to him that she is cursed. He'd definitely feel betrayed, the one person he felt safe talking to about all this turns out to be another monster, probably trying to manipulate him into being it's food or something worse. But then he'd come around to it and realise there was definitely a bit of prejudice in how he talked about cursed individuals that he wasn't even aware of and Rafta helped him realise this. Definitely could work that into a fic.

(Already said this in a different ask) Them going on scheduled picnics. Like maybe between 12pm and 3pm they have a scheduled hangout time during The 15 Days. But they always go over whatever planned time they set up, they like each other's company that much :3

TL:DR: Rafta and Nestor's relationship is very sad to me because it shows how the relationship between cursed and non-cursed people are going to be difficult to form post Visitor.

[csilla-nocturne]

Post canon Xie Lian's Mom comes back idea:

Due to very rare, and super tragic circumstances involving similar manners of death, the woman that Xie Lian's mother reincarnated into at the time reverted to Xie Lian's mom. She's very scared, and confused, but the only thing she can really think about is finding her son. Seeing she's not in her own body she thinks she's possessed some poor unknown woman which answers some questions, but makes everything worse.

It does not help at all that it's been over 1000 years since her actual death at this point, and things have changed enough she has trouble communicating with people and just keeps getting more confused. Eventually some kind people take her to a nearby temple which just happens to be one dedicated to her son and his husband! (Personal Note: I have always headcanoned that Hua Cheng makes all the statues, and paintings for their temples himself so everything is not only super accurate but outstandingly beautiful.) That night when almost everyone else is asleep Xie Lian's mom repeats what she had seen other worshipers doing and prays to hualian for help. She doesn't even get half way through before Xie Lian, and Hua Cheng show up. Cue tearful reunion, because even if she's in a different body Xie Lian knows that she is absolutely his mom. They wait till the morning, and hualian in different forms tell the people who had been helping her that she's a relative they have been looking for, thank them, and take his mom to straight to paradise manor, skipping the city they don't want to risk traumatizing her further. They take some time to explain what's happened, and help her settle in. Hua Cheng who already suspects what has actually happened does some research, while getting to know his mother-in-law. It does not take her long to come to adore to her son-in-law. He's charming, intelligent, likes her cooking, and most importantly it's obvious just how happy he's made her Lianlian!

After a while Hua Cheng confirms this is (what I have decided to call) incarnation resurgence. Speaking to Xie Lian and Yin Yu he honestly thinks whatever happened to current incarnation it's most likely impossible to bring her back, and attempting to do so would only pull up another previous incarnation, and possibly damage her soul. But he admits he's 1: only seen this once before as it's so rare, and 2: Incredibly biased toward keeping Xie Lian's mom around, and letting her live out the rest her life in this mortal body. So he grits his teeth, and suggest just to be certain Xie Lian's mom can stay with no negative consequences that they get Mei Nianqing who may have more experience with this.

Also at some point Feng Xin, and Mu Qing found out, and had to smile, and nod while dying inside as the former queen of Xian Le sang the praises of their friend's husband. (There is also an extra bit of horror when they find out how Xie Lian's parents died, because Xie Lian never told them, and Xie Lian's mom didn't know that.) Anyway Mei Nianqing eventually arrives, and after doing his own spiritual examination of Xie Lian's mom agrees with Hua Cheng that the best thing is to let her stay. And so Xie Lian, and his mom make a big dinner for everyone together, and Xie Lian just gives everyone apologetic looks while Hua Cheng thoroughly enjoys the meal(and everyone else's suffering.) while giving Xie Lian's mom compliments, and offers a few pointers about it.

[wortaives]

me when. when you. that bad end friends au but here are the draft pages I did

(check tags for additional info)

[ctommysno1fan]

ctommy era blinkies (as requested by @manyminded), f2u no credit needed

[timeslipcamp]

alright thanks to danie's post i saw we've got some info about the next episode! unfortunately i am a nerd for folklore so i did a deep dive into the festival of tanabata! here's a post about it if you, like me, are american and had never heard of this before

disclaimer: i'm usa born and raised and all information compiled below is just from me researching, so i could be missing different cultural variations/area specific nuances. my studies were unfortunately focused on western folklore. if you have anything to add based on your own stories you've heard, i'd love to hear it!

alright so the episode in english is called lost stars, and the japanese title calls it "the lost child of tanbata." honestly the wikipedia page for the festival is pretty thorough so if you want more in depth info i suggest giving that a read. i also looked into a couple cultural sites just because i was curious about other ways it was celebrated

the star festival ("tanabata") takes place in july. it originally came from a similar festival celebrated in china, and the date moves around based on the region.

spoilers for episode 17: moby says "next month" in reference to the festival, meaning it'll be celebrated in july, since this last episode took place in june. the wikipedia says the dates it was celebrated in 2024 was in august. if they go with july, mc still has a lil more time before her curse. or, if it's in august, she has days. inchresting 👀

the festival that is celebrated in china is similar, and is most likely based on a similar tale. we'll be focusing on the japanese celebration since our story takes place in tokyo

in the original tale, orihime and hikoboshi (also mentioned in one of towa's home screen lines) were two mythological characters who ended up having celestial bodies named after them. in the story, orihime is a weaver who makes many beautiful clothes by the banks of the heavenly river. unfortunately, she's working so hard day and night that she has not had time to meet anyone to marry. her father arranges for her to meet hikoboshi, a cowherd who works on the other side of the river. they fell in love immediately and were married, but due to them now spending time with each other, no weaving nor herding was done. because of this, they were forbidden from seeing each other. orihime pleaded with her father, and he granted her wish that as long as their work was done by the seventh day of the seventh month, they could meet for one day. it was said that magpies use their wings to form a bridge for her to cross to meet him.

according to some sources, there's a few other tales that share similar stories with this one, with a task needing to be met in order to see someone on the celestial side. most of the stories require a feat or a test and travel across a river/lake in order to reach the heavenly area the other person is in.

because of the story, the festival is celebrated based on the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and that can translate to different times. according to wikipedia, in 2024 it was celebrated on august 10th, but this year it will be celebrated on august 29th. the seventh month of the gregorian calendar is july, which is why some places who adhered to the switch will celebrate it then. this website has a nice explanation for how the chinese festival traditions came over back in the 8th century and mixed with the already existing japanese festivals and tradition.

the ways it's celebrated also seem to vary across region, but the main theme is wishes. people write their wishes on paper and hang them on bamboo, creating a wish tree. (one kids celebration site said a good thing to wish for is better handwriting lmao this is so cute) at the end of the festival, the wishes are either burned or set adrift on a river. one website i was reading said that in osaka, people throw lights in a river to make their own milky way

what i think this means for the next episode:

given that moby brought it up, i'm almost wondering if he was implying that we could wish our curse away. however! one site mentioned that there used to be a shinto purification ceremony around the same time as tanabata where a large special cloth was woven (a tanabata) to pray for protection for the crops and a good harvest. big chance for haku to step up if he's there. (the haku girlies seem really sure, and especially after this i think i'm leaning towards a hotarubi + towa episode) towa mentions the tale in his home screen lines and many of the stories involve proving your love, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ very towa episode. either we can make a wish or we could be purified or both!

also theres a traditional tanabata song i hope we hear zenji sing it

"the lost child of tanabata" and "lost stars" kinda makes me think there's going to be some ghost kid or spirit that we need to lay to rest by helping them get back home. one of the versions of the story spoke of a wife that escaped back to the heavens and took her kids with her. perhaps one of them fell (a falling star) and we have to get them back home?

also hey speaking of wishes, where's that god that haru was helping to rehab? how's he doing? is he better yet?

[wanderingmind867]

I was making my reading list for the world's finest comic book (the one with batman and superman team-ups), and I just realized it's last issue really is sad. Issue #323. At the end of the story, Batman and Superman realize they have fundamental differences in their attitudes, and Batman calls off the partnership after years of friendship and trust. Apparently, the DC wiki said that higher ups at the company demanded World's Finest be cancelled, but the plan was to bring it back eventually and reunite the Batman and Superman team. But because of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the writers never got a chance to do that. And since Frank Miller takes over as lead architect for post-crisis batman, we get a dark, brooding, edgy vigilante who'd never be as close with Superman as the pre-crisis, fun and understanding Batman would be. In a way, World's Finest #323 seems way more significant now. It was the end of the pre-crisis Superman & Batman team. It was the end of an era.

It's a tragedy, and I actually now feel bad for the writers and for the team of superman and batman. Because while pre-crisis batman still had his grim moments (namely, most of the stuff after dick grayson leaves for college is pretty noir-esque), Batman still dressed in Blue and Grey. He still had a conscience, and he had friends. One of the wiki pages had a quote where he admitted Superman was his friend. And I can't see modern batman ever doing that. So we should all mourn the loss of pre-crisis batman. He wasn't great, but he was a hell of a lot better than the post-crisis batman. A whole hell of a lot better.

[lizardlycrimes]

I'm sorry aphmau nation, but straight up PDH!Aphmau would absolutely be a chat gbt user

[wayfinderships]

Whoa! FE3H Panchi refs be upon yee! [More about them below]

YAYYY! Finished the ref for them <3 Im so happy to finally have that complete! In the Academy Phase, Panchi is a Librarian assistant. They're the same age as the students of the academy but because of their circumstances is unable to be a student and is instead working at the library. When asked what they did before the academy and the whereabouts of their parents, they go eerily quiet and will dodge the questions. During their time working at the library, the quickly became friends with Dimitri and were completely oblivious to the fact that the prince had developed feeling for them. In the War Phase, they returned to their previous life of stealing to survive. Their actions vary a lot per route but in Azure Moon, they decide to join Dimitri's side and become the Librarian rather than just an assistant. Their friendship with Dimitri goes through many challenges during this time, many disagreements occur and they aren't a pretty sight. But as the game continues, the two slowly begin to make up and become good friends once more. Not long after they make up and become the good friends they were years ago, Panchi realizes that they developed feelings for the prince. It isn't till the end of the game that the two finally confess their feelings and become a couple <3