#the-ark-awaits

[rubyroboticalt]

waves! im reverse unoing you. draw YOUR favorite guy. heart emoji

hi i know its been A Month thank you for your patience here are my blorbos

zeyeo! his horrorcraft series was so good. you should watch it. hes on youtube.

you get a fully rendered techno as well bc hes also one of my top faves. not even close, baby! (also can you tell i finished techno and then clip studio paint instantly went on sale. is it obvious.)

[ace1diots]

hey remember that time a couple of us summoned viking into the life game? that was crazyyyyyy (hands you my skin from that)

oh the wonders of the internet. anyways WELL SWEEP

Hi ark!!!!!! and yes. i do remember The Manifesto Incident, The Trident Incident, the MANY DEATHS, and everything else that resulted from the vikingpilot summoning circle. thanks for voting for The Well!!!

[creepiefarm]

hi this is sammy she like to sit like a dainty lady

OH...she's so lovely i love her one floppy one upright ear here. her very refined posture. what a darling thank u sm ;w;

[rebloggingrexan]

pavlovs dog and schrodinger's cat armed with chekhovs gun and occams razor to take down freud. new hit movie coming april 20th 2069

[whatisr3alityy]

Sketches

[adhdo5]

I need to write the damn Imperial Radch trilogy review also but I'll do that later

[infinitystation]

i've never bought something faster in my life KJHFDGG

[transman-badass]

Picrew Tag Game Time!

This is the cutest picrew I've ever seen

Tagging: @slenders1ckn3ss @lychhiker-writes @itsrainingunicorns

@dyrewrites @abalonetea @forthesanityofsome @raindroppoetry

@ajarofpickledtears @the-ark-awaits @actualblanketgremlin @astras-rambles

... And everyone else who wants to! [though maybe start a new post if this one gets too long]

[wanderingtheark]

the keychains are here!!!

for those of you who have awaited their arrival, they are now here! you can find where I'll be selling them at this link here:

Tags: @fluorrite @operatorsickness @lavender-butterscotch @iamtiredofyourhorror @snakeenthusiast

[ship-o-rama]

Name: Narada (alternate) Affiliation: Romulans, None Years: 2387, 2233-2258 Captain: Nero, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura

Background: Paths diverged from the original Narada when it the space-time tunnel took it to the mirror universe linked with the universe created by the original Narada time travel. It also arrived in 2233 and also engaged and destroyed the (I.S.S.) Kelvin. The ship and crew became prisoners of the Klingons and spent the next 20+ years at Rura Penthe. The Klingons learned nothing.

In 2258, Commander James T. Kirk, Commander Scott and Dr. McCoy left the Enterprise at the tail end of the Klingon surrender in a pair of shuttlecraft with assault teams and took control of the Narada.

Kirk had already pried the ship's secrets out of the remaining Narada crew and executed Nero himself for the death of his father. Kirk took command of the ship, with Leonard McCoy and Scotty in tow, and intercepted the I.S.S. Enterprise, which had been busy mopping up the war with the Klingons at Qo'noS. There, he reveal the full extent of his betrayal to Spock when Chekov, Sulu and Uhura all beamed to the Narada. As he was boasting to Spock about his Ultimate Plans, Uhura secretly beamed Spock aboard before Narada destroyed the Enterprise.

Kirk contacted Senator Pike and let him know he planned to destroy Vulcan in the name of the Imperium, which was now himself.

Thru the ships databanks Kirk knew that Nero awaited the reopening of the space-time tunnel that brought him there. The Narada made the rendezvous and the anomaly spit out the Jellyfish and another version of Spock Prime.

Scotty cracked the code surrounding Red Matter and it was immediately used on Vulcan. Kirk beamed down to the Katric Ark to gloat to those working there. Then the attack stopped, Uhura having taken control of Narada, killing Scotty. Spock and Spock Prime beamed down to Vulcan to give Kirk a chance to surrender and when he didn't, Spock killed him. Spock was intent on preserving the Terran-Vulcan alliance while Uhura took the ship to Earth to show them a new future.

Appeared in Star Trek: Ongoing Vol. 4, IDW Comics

[ace1diots]

this is the paw you have from my pov btw

EJEHEHE EVIL LIL KITTY PAW BAP :D !!!!

[creepiefarm]

followup, these are my crows. i love them

WOW six of them and everything, what a gorgeous murder you have <3 they r so lucky to have u as their friend :)

[big-cheesy-productions]

SXSG SPOILERS

Okay, I finished Shadow's story. And I have thoughts. Mainly:

More thoughts below:

Overall, I enjoyed it. I think as a way to catch everyone up on Shadow's story and who he is as a character, it did great. It was heavy on exposition, but it's assuming most people haven't played SAB-Heroes-STH '05. Fair enough.

It just felt short. I just wish the cutscenes were longer, and I wish there was more Maria and Gerald and Shadow. The interactions we got with Maria were very similar to what we got in Dark Beginnings. It felt more like a refresher rather than a much awaited closure, but I'll take the closure we got and the reestablishment of Shadow's character.

I think I just would have liked if the story had a few more cutscenes dealing with Shadow, Maria, and Gerald's relationships rather than them trying to figure out what was going on and Maria repeating things said in Dark Beginnings. But that's just me.

I think Dark Beginnings was so amazing and it set my expectations very high, set a specific tone, and had threads that Gens wasn't planning on continuing. I think Gens also set up threads that it dropped too though, like, you know, the whole "maybe I can save them from their fate" thing that got mentioned, forgotten, and mentioned again that was only otherwise minimally discussed in the little snippets of conversation in the over world.

Why was Big there and those two robots? There weren't any other characters relevant to Shadow that could be there? Like Abraham? Or, hell, toss Silver in since he wasn't in the original.

Gameplay wise, it was super fun. It felt very clean. I like the direction Frontiers has set for future gameplay. I think it was a little easy, but maybe that's just because I'm an adult and just played a bunch of old games that have old game jank lol.

Would have loved to see more Rouge and Omega, but I'm glad they're setting up for Team Dark to return in future installments. I'll fucking take that.

I've said it already, but the use of Radical Highway and the symbolism of it was probably my favorite part. I don't know why they had Frontiers level though??? Like, why not one from HIS GAME? Instead of one from a game he's not even in??? Odd choice. Maybe they could have done one of the flashback ARK levels? That could have given us some juicy cutscenes.

Also just want to appreciate the fact that the first time Shadow defeated Black Doom it was as Super Shadow. This time is was all Shadow, no emeralds required.

I also like the confirmation that Shadow was not meant to be a weapon originally. I don't think that's always been super clear. Doom wanted a warrior of course, but Gerald going insane was the nail in the coffin. I would have liked to see more of Shadow's feelings towards Gerald on that, though I did like when Shadow first sees Gerald up close he backs away, and almost looks a bit frightened, until he realizes this is Gerald from before the ARK incident.

I think they could have added a bit more. I think that's my overall opinion. Hopefully DLC will add a smidge more? Maybe?

I really did enjoy it. I just wanted to jot down all of my thoughts!

Edit: I don't want this to read as super critical! I think I had very specific expectations for it and I'd like to replay it without those expectations now. I really think it's great overall!

Anyway, SEGA, remaster SAB2, Heroes, STH '05, and Sonic '06 and my life is yours.

[whatisr3alityy]

I AM MAKING MY OWN EMH

Everyman hybrid: the ark awaits

Some redesigns for the main cast!

Some facts:

HABIT in this world is spelled "haBit" and his main nickname is "beast"

HaBit did NOT eat a baby, hes NOT a n#zi, hes NOT a Grapist. But he does torture, stalk, play with, and kill his victims; he was made by the ark to be an awful monster to help feed souls to the ark itself, as it itself is a lovecraftian beast who feeds on humans.

Jeff is trans and Jessa is tan

Damsel and Evan don't date and do not have a child, as said in the rebirth theory, they would feel more sibling like and would not have romantic Attraction.(They were adopted siblings in their past life with cornthal)

haBit is just a monster who's made with a purpose. And Slenderman has for years tried to fix his mindset, but it never worked. He's like a petulant teen (he "reforms" in my mansion au, he's trying). Don't worry, he's held accountable for his actions

That's it for now :) thank you

[balkanradfem]

I was thinking the other day about how often biblical stories imply that any sort of species can be started with just one and one female of the species, and sells this as the correct (maybe only correct) way to start things. Like Adam and Eve, they're supposed to be the starters of humanity, one (presumably young) male and one again, presumably young woman.

It repeats again with Noah's ark, where two animals of each species are collected, one male and one female, so they could all 'start their species anew'. Noah's family also is presumed to be the regular, one male + one woman, enough to re-start the humanity.

I understand that these stories were written to establish and force the idea of nuclear family being necessary, good and the start of everything, and if you don't think further than 'oh yeah one male and one woman are capable of making a baby' and you stop thinking there, you might be sold with these stories. But if you think about it for a second further, the implications of this are absolutely atrocious.

One young male and a young woman, are never accompanied by their parents or their grandparents in the stories. They're purposely isolated from their families, or are presumed to not even have family, which means none of them has any support, anyone to go to for advice or help, nobody to rely on to do the massive amount of labour of having and raising even one child. This is already where it falls apart, two young people do not have the knowledge, experience or wisdom to raise a small child, alone. They need their mothers, they need their grandmothers, they need elders and community in order to be able to function - first of all tell me who is delivering that baby they're having? Where is her midwife? It's never mentioned how she gets through childbirth in those stories, apparently she just 'figures it out', while in reality birth is dangerous, and women need both emotional and physical support during labour. There's nobody in this story who knows how to deliver the child safely, or how to save one or both of them should the things go wrong. They both have a chance of dying and then the species is dead. This is all ignored and pretended not to be an issue.

So next in the story we're led to believe that these two young people have made a (mistake) baby and are raising it alone and this is fine. Even funnier is that they often first have a male baby, as an effort to repopulate their species, I mean yeah thats gonna do you a lot of good for sure. Two young people of the opposite sex, without any elders, community, family or support, have one significant power imbalance - the male will usually be physically more powerful, while the woman will be more intelligent, resourceful, adaptive, thoughtful, resilient, and infinitely more vulnerable during the times of labour. It has been shown again and again, that in these circumstances, males do not find it appropriate to protect and treasure the women, but they use their physical advantage to overpower and control her, and her reproductive abilities. But in the stories this is 'fine' because she should 'listen' to this dumber, bigger, less intelligent, more aggressive, more demanding, more exploitative, more dangerous, less useful creature who is completely parasitic and depending on her kindness, intelligence, ability to make food, reproductive abilities and sense of forgiveness of his crimes towards her, to survive. Women are apparently just supposed to be hosts for parasitic males, while isolated, not given a way to overpower him except poison, which is then again depicted as 'bad' because she should just resign to live in servitude to the creature if she wants to prove that she is 'good'. This is bullshit.

Let's look at the next stage, where even more disasters await us. So they raised their child, or children, who have only had these two people to look up to, so they've likely picked up the patterns of 'male is to be served or violence happens, women need to keep their head down and obey or the violence happens', and now the children are supposed to repopulate the species. With? whom? This concept relies entirely on incest? With children who have been raised on learning the massive power imbalance? We're supposed to have sisters accept sexual slavery from their brothers at this point, if we want to have a species of humans? The bible is promoting this?

The bible at this point realizes they've fucked up and write down 'well the sons just went to the nearest village to find girlfriends' OH YOU NEED A VILLAGE NOW DON'T YOU? Now you remembered that actually no, you will now rebuild a species without just one male and one woman and in fact, villages are necessary, and your story leads straight into incest and sexual slavery of women. Presumably the women in the village have whole families and not just two people put in this unnatural position of parasitism and power imbalance. But we don't know, we're supposed to remember 'one male + one woman is correct and nothing else is okay', when the concept is fucked up from the starts and they eventually cave and introduce a village, but do it casually like it doesn't really matter and the story totally wouldn't end up in forced incestuous pregnancies and making a mess of human gene pool.

It was so important for the bible to establish, and re-establish this concept because that is the only way for males to be able to isolate, use and control young women. The concept where women don't have their own mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, families, friends, and villages to protect them from abuse, that is the only scenario where one male can sit on his butt, call himself the 'provider' and then raise his voice and his hand whenever she doesn't do exactly as he says. It's disgusting, and there's nowhere else this can go except abuse. Males will never be unwilling to use their physical advantage to hurt and control women, and we've watched it for centuries, they were more willing to kill women than to accept that we have the right to vote,, the right to divorce them, the right to abort at will (they're still more willing to kill us than to accept this right). No woman is safe in an union with one male, without her family, friends, and a network of support. To live her entire life normally, she needs to rely on the knowledge, experience and wisdom of her elders, so she wouldn't have to do everything alone, and learn everything alone. Male, in return, usually learns all the tactics of manipulating and isolating a woman and will use those, so she needs to be ready and have strategies to defend herself, to be able to escape if it comes to that.

And sometimes, even when the woman has all the support in the world, the male still ends up killing her, because he gets a chance to do it, and it's always at the distraught and horror of everyone who loved her.

Thinking back, the concept of nuclear family had to be invented because males didn't feel like they were able to control the women enough. They likely needed to establish this because they noticed that women were able to go on uncontrolled, they were too 'free', too supported, too resourceful to just trap and control. They needed to convince women that the right thing to do was be alone with one male person who just happens to be stronger and that in fact, not doing so is dangerous and wrong. The concept of nuclear family put the control right in their hands where they wanted it, and it's still ongoing, and we're sick of it. It's a trap.

If you don't believe these stories have influenced our views, think about how males sometimes dream up concepts where they're the 'only male left on the planet', in company of the woman who they're interested in. They relish in these fantasies because they believe in that scenario, they're entitled to rape her. She isn't entitled to resist because then she's responsible for the downfall of humanity, for not repopulating the species, and they feel that this responsibility has to fall so heavy on the woman's shoulders that she will not possibly try to resist him. Women still do, women say right away that if they were the last one, they'd kill themselves instantly. Because we know and understand there's no repopulating the planet with just male and one female. There's just female sexual slavery and incest.

Possibly even the story of Adam and Eve is just a fantasy concept of one male who looked at a woman who was able to say no to him, and thought 'well, what if we were the only humans existing. How would she be able to refuse me then'. And he realized she couldn't. So he wrote it down and sold it as the ideal utopia created by god himself. And we've all been hearing his fetish fantasy like it's gospel. And then the rest of the story is focused on how wrong Eve is for resisting the rules of the male, and the even more powerful male god, how she'll be punished for eating a piece of fruit. We should have never fallen for it.

[hauntedscribes]

Who is left to hear the secret

Ark awaits

Regards,

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