#they have outlier powers

[elo-the-ghost]

i wouldn't normally post sketches (doodles, sure), but i figure this is as good a warning as any that i like the giant alien robot vehicles given i haven't posted anything BUT pokemon before.

there is kinda a story here??? i have it in my brain that In-Bound and Out-Bound are split-spark twins that were engineers/conductors with train alt-modes before the war kicked off. where they worked got attacked and they got separated, with In-Bound getting his processor scrambled super bad. He ends up being rescued by Autobots and joining their side, while Out-Bound initially joins the Decepticons because he blames the 'bots for "killing" his brother. They find each other again some years later and Out-Bound switches sides (though he probably was already considering just leaving Cybertron because the 'cons are full of Assholes and he could easily see the war wasn't going anywhere fast).

also Prime and Prowl are on the right for size comparison. these two are Big Dudes.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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[adobe-outdesign]

"Why doesn't everyone just use master balls if they're the best kind of pokeball" I mean you're not out there buying Gucci handbags when the $10 purse you bought from Walmart works just fine now are you

[foursaints]

What is Barty's biggest dream? What would he do if he found out that there would be no tomorrow? (I mean the stupidest things, but also the honest ones)

@fernhelm put it very beautifully: it is difficult to have dreams when you live your life in opposition to others…. it would be crushing to discover that there is no tomorrow because he would reckon with the idea that he has spent his entire life as a tool :(

to me it’s the same principle as how none of the death eaters can cast a patronus. i do not think that most teenagers groomed into what is essentially a murdersuicide cult would have something as precious & fully formed as a Big Dream

but that is what makes the death eaters who ARE still animated by their (delusional) hopes and dreams so interesting. alecto dreams of wealth. sev dreams of love. i think regulus dreams of acceptance and there is an almost innocent quality to him holding onto that… these dreams make them unique among their other pureblood peers because they are something held & acknowledged & chased after, as opposed to the others (like barty or bella) who do not consciously know what they are acting in service of, but rather navigating structures of power in their own vague self interests

[birdyverdie]

Damn. A tornado hit my area and I still don't have power.

I'm good tho! But outside is a whole mess

[whatwooshkai]

19!! ( I just found your blog and I AM LOVING IT !! You write them so well <3333)

Sometimes Heatwave gets so used to knowing what's about to happen that he forgets Primus likes to actively troll him at every turn.

It started out as a normal day. Heatwave was walking from one room into another, when a bucket of paint splashed down over the top of his helm, spraying out over the brim of his hat.

"What the-?" He'd looked up to see Cody and Frankie, holding an empty bucket with maniacal grins on their faces.

"YOU JUST GOT PRANKED!" they shout, before running off, their manic laughter bouncing off the walls of the firehouse.

And so it began.

Heatwave takes an unwilling role in the prank war on the side of the rescue bots, but only because multiple times a day he is either covered in paint or some other substance, hit in the face, or suffers some other kind of public humiliation while Cody and Frankie shout their now hated catchphrase and run before he can throw them as far as he can.

There's a little solace in the fact that he is not alone, the rest of the bots are suffering the same fate (although they did stop dumping paint on Chase after the first sensory meltdown), but the thing is, it shouldn't be happening to him. He should be able to see this coming!

There's little he and his bots can do in retaliation, as they are ten times the size of the kids and lack the same resources, but getting them by slicking the garage of the firehouse's floor with oil was so worth the cleanup.

But for every prank they successfully pull off, the kids have done ten more.

And so after days in the trenches he sits in the washracks under warm solvent, grumbling unintelligibly as he, Boulder and Blades try to clean glitter out of their own and each other's frames. Forget the kids.

Heatwave is going to find and yell at god.

[smolsix]

-blows dust off this blog-

So

Little Nightmares III, huh???

I was trying to avoid being excited about it because no solid release date and 2024 could be a few months from now or a year from now and Idk how long I can handle being so fuckin hyped for this game YEEHAW

BUT I CAN'T, I KEEP THINKING ABT THE GAME AAHAHHGAGA

so here are my thoughts, if you wanted to know

FIRST OF ALL, i am so glad that after we saw LTNM II we thought it'd be co-op but it was just an AI, that we finally get co-op! AND ONLINE TOO, i spent the first day worried it'd be shared screen same room situation since i wasn't trying to get my hopes up but then I realised I can just.. google it.. AND IT IS!!! ONLINE!! IDK WHO I AM GONNA PLAY IT W FIRST AAAAAAAA

anyways, you can definitely tell it's a new studio working on this game, the world feels mostly the same but the character designs themselves are definitely stylistically similar, but not the same. With Six especially, the MC designs were very simplistic and realistic but used colour (or for Mono, a single design quirk being the bag) to stand out against their backgrounds and against the enemies which are largely neutral colours. But these new ones feel... "over designed"? On their own they definitely aren't, but in comparison to Mono, Six, Seven, and even NPCs like the flashlight girl, they have a lot more going on (especially the little wrench kid, Idk which one is Alone and which one is Low yet btw OOP)

Despite it being a new studio and you can tell, new puzzles and environments, they're still doing their best to have the OGs vibes and whatnot to feel familiar, namely in the trailer they bring back the fuses, and the additional gameplay video there's a short scene with an environment with all the shelves you can find in LTNM 1s gnome section (the one with the cart that is affected by the Maws swaying).

But regardless, it still feels different enough my brain is still nervous about it. I also feel In A Way about Tarsier having LTNM II explode and their franchise getting the attention it deserves, only to have it stuck with Bandai and now it's going to likely explode again and they aren't involved. Idk how anyone on that team feels about it, but if it were me omg.

Also the only boss we've seen so far (i hope they add more and i def want some to be a surprise so im not gonna assume this is the only one for now) feels... out of place? it has the design qualities of a LTNM boss, but the size of it makes it more of a spectacle than a warped/corruption of an adult. All the previous bosses fit in their environment, we are the small ones and they are scaled to the world around them. This is the first time, outside monster Six who imo is a bit of an outlier anyways due to her circumstances, we're getting a boss who is this huge and doesn't even fit their own environment. I hope we get a lore reason for this in some way, because currently the boss doesn't have the same vibe as the others and it's throwing me off a bit. Don't get me wrong, it'll be terrifying, but looking at the picture as a whole they are sort of out of place for me rn. I don't hate the bitch either, I'm not gonna be like omg get rid of it or change it, but it does strike me as odd seeing it for now.

And yes the tall man is too tall for a lot of things, but he's not THAT big. He's more like yer tall guy who hits his head off doorways, which happens irl anyways LMAO

Little Nightmares primarily tries to capture the feeling of being a small child and how everything is big and scary, but a doll that huge is out of the realm of reality set up for us already. It's gone from scary corrupted animal to godzilla, if that makes sense.

OH AND THE MIRRORS ARE VERY LTNM COMICS OF THEM TEE HEE < 3

[samferd]

The zodiac is so funny to me cause it’s all these real animals and then just. Dragon. Like one here is obviously infinitely better than the others and shouldn’t be included because of that.

[yourcrazygirlokris]

I agree with the people who say The Watcher is Nightcat, but there’s also the dating sim dialogue which confirms the same thing. This confirms that an iterator is cloning slugcats and we are not doing a single thing about it. Absolutely sadistic. A tragedy. Horrifying. The culprit will be identified in tags

[asterdeer]

by some miracle i haven’t been insulted, called a communist, or had the door slammed in my face loud enough to hurt my teeth this year (yet), but today a full grown man sighed directly into my face and then, while i was explaining how our office works, stuck one fingertip in his mouth and held eye contact while he just. sucked on his fingertip. occasionally swapped fingers. and honestly i wish he could have just insinuated i was personally receiving bribe money from nancy pelosi, given the door a big loud slam, and had done with it, so much less psychic damage would have been done that way

[extrasfromthevoid]

Oracle Trance -- Caught in The Moirai's Threads

I haven’t talked a lot about Milo’s power of clairvoyance yet, which is as shame because it’s such an integral part of her character! So many of her choices and so much of her personality are informed by this power, for better or worse

So.

Milo has foreseen the return of The Shredder since she was a literal infant. And as a literal infant, Milo couldn’t exactly articulate what it was about her “dreams” that distressed her so much. She woke up crying a lot, which her birth parents hated greatly because to an outside perspective, it seemed like she cried for no reason.

Those visions got graphic. As in, “experience the brutal deaths of yourself, your loved ones, and the entire world” levels of graphic. Her visions are primarily visual and tactile (you know how sometimes if you get hurt in a dream, you not only feel it in the dream but you get this weird phantom feeling where you got hurt when you wake up ? It’s basically that). When Milo was young, the content of the visions were poorly defined. Anything but the MAIN subject of the vision would be hazy shapes and blobs of color. This changes as she grows older and grows more in tune with her power.

The way it works is that Milo can perceive the unwoven threads of time and chance. Each thread represents a possible outcome and is made up of hundreds of thousands of variables. The aesthetic for time that I'm going for is--obviously--that of woven fabric.

The past is the pattern that's already been woven.

The present is what is currently being added to the overall fabric.

The future is the threads that have yet to be added and incorporated.

For her part, Milo can only see the unwoven threads.

Since there's so many loose threads and possibilities, it's easy for Milo to get "snagged" in them and have to view these futures continuously until she untangles her consciousness from these endless possible futures. This is what a waking vision (or an oracle trance) ultimately is. While in this state, if people ask Milo questions pertaining to the future, the threads with the answers to those questions become magnetized to her (like static, really), and only serves to entangle her further and make it harder and more difficult for Milo to separate her consciousness from her power. In fact, it would be insanely easy for Milo to get permanently stuck in this state because the threads of possibility she gets entangled in are unbreakable, so the only way out is to untangle herself (and anyone who's ever worked with thread or yarn knows how easily a Gordian Knot can form when you least want it).

What's more, being in a waking vision/oracle trance is not unlike having sleep paralysis. She's still somewhat conscious, her visions projecting themselves to her on her surroundings, but her thoughts outside her visions are sluggish--unable to fully divorce the visions from reality as she would normally--and her body is fully paralyzed.

(Eternity trapped in a waking vision is an unfortunate fate that many oracles have fallen prey to as in most cases, the people around them would value access to their power over them as people.)

The best way to deal with waking visions is for Milo to be left alone with minimal stimulation, so she can untangle herself in peace. The process can still take a while depending on how tangled she is, but it usually takes at least two days.

Milo gets her visions when she sleeps, though they don't happen every time she sleeps. She generally can sense when a vision is coming, especially if it's going to be very intense (those ones are proceeded with what Milo has dubbed "prelude migraines"). She doesn't have much control over what her visions show her, but the things that she thinks of most can influence them. And since Milo thinks a lot about The Shredder's return and keeping her family safe, these things feature frequently.

Being exposed to abrupt stimulus during these visions is what triggers a waking vision/oracle trance.

(Her brothers learned that the hard way when they were young. After experiencing one of Milo's waking visions for the first time, they collectively became pretty protective of her when they know she's having visions now that they are aware of just how vulnerable she is during this time)

ALSO

I've finally decided on what Milo's true origins (i.e. pre-Draxum origins) are! I've mostly been defaulting to my crossover origins, but I figured one out that is no crossover required!

(I'm still keeping Milo's universe DC adjacent because I have some very specific funny references I want to include)

So. Where did Milo come from? Why does she have such a frankly OP/meta power from birth?

Well...what race of people do we know of from the TMNT universe that collectively have mystical time powers and mysterious origins?

Time Masters, babyyy~~

[airandangels]

I first learned the word "bogus" from Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, in which Danny warns us that if somebody smiles with their mouth but the look in their eyes doesn't change, "it's sure to be bogus." In some editions (I'm not sure if this is a US/UK thing or an updating thing) the word is replaced with "phoney," which I find less satisfying. There are just a few words where I can specifically remember what or who I learned them from; "bogus" is one and "brittle" is another (my mother explaining why I might not be able to keep the little plastic cocktail animal* that was on the rim of my milkshake glass at a restaurant forever)

In both cases, I think I initially thought of the word as just having that extremely specific meaning (the falsity of a smile that doesn't reach the eyes, the fragility of thin inflexible plastic), didn't encounter it again for some time, and when it came up again in a different context I was like "What are you doing here?"

*twas a donkey

[unproduciblesmackdown]

like hearing an autistic person talking abt realizing like "oh so friendships for some ppl don't involve always having to maintain a performance" and going damn right yeah and now "oh so friendships for some ppl involve their getting to expect that the other ppl will be interested in them and provide support" like huh go figure. more surprising like oh right i guess i always felt like interactions require maintaining a performance that can only go wrong (generally true; like there's no "well you're ruining things by keeping ppl from being the Real You so just Be Yourself" like a] masking isn't Real or done by Yourself or b] like if you unmask people like you now & ableism is over, b/c it was your fault for reacting to it in the first place) & thus also that i should be interested & provide support but not expect that in turn / the sense as well that you are/can only come up short and have things to make up for anyways while lucky whoever's even providing the time of day

then it's always an Exercise to go "oh right well beyond going [my god autistic character] the whole time, what Things re: winston billions was i still not quite seeing as as unusual / Not Good as they are. even for billions" like sure noticing he's holding on to the hopes of some kind of positive / actual relationship w/rian for like year 950 & this manifesting with the Determined Friendliness but zooming in like oh i guess that adamant amicability sure involves winston suppressing a negative reaction to negative treatment and yet still hoping for an improvement, which like, was always Possible but a) hinged on rian simply choosing to change how she regards/treats him (or someone intervening to change the situation) & b) apparently is not going to happen. thinking like yeah that's very Friendly of him. and knowing like man winston's sure still trying to keep this friendliness offer open for like two years. but also now more specifically going like Yeah and pretty fucked then that his baseline expectations don't include that Mutual Interest & Support (though someone being abusive is definitely interested just not in any good ways. and certainly not (actually) supportive)

[chaos0pikachu]

Only Friends really got me up on a Saturday, the lords day, at 930am to watch a group of friends be gay, messy and horny on main

[oflgtfol]

why do so many leaders actively want to be leader since they were kits like idk it gets so old having these characters spend their entire lives fighting for their ambition its like snore. what about a super edition about one of the classic iconic leaders who never planned on becoming leader but became leader anyway

[proustianrevelry]

raised as a girl? raised as a boy?

honestly, "raised as the youngest" contains much more useful information about the childhood I had and the person I became as a result