#this is not a fully formed thought

[maeofthedead]

Something something the thin veneer of civilization and proprietary layered over archaic, vicious, and inhumane practices

[metalcorebarbie]

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[idontmindifuforgetme]

[mickules]

Why is it even called a Funeral anyway? There's nothing fun about it.

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So guess what major life event I had to muddle through huh?

to top it off too, I've also had a bunch of OTHER major life changes all happening at once, including stuff with my job and flat- positive things! But not without their own share of stress

I'm doing alright, no need to worry about me, but as you can imagine any art plans kinda went straight out the window. I just had to get my head back on straight.

I'm back in the swing of things, excited about what's coming up, and have got some fun things in the works!

much love for all your patience.

[scyllas-dogs]

HGGFSSSDHGXX- ur Zeus x Odysseus content is keeping me going aaaaaaaaa- god(s), Zeus catching feels for this lil’ jackass n then being sad when he goes back to the people he actually wants to be with is so juicy mmmmm- love that kinda thing hehe drama, drama everywhere >:]]]

zeus actually somehow retains negative rizz when he cant figure out how to seduce someone

[lucabyte]

traveller tips! you can drink from any standing body of water. it's fine.

[thinking-emoji]

the fact that "don't cry, craft" is genuinely some of the best life advice i've ever heard

[monstersanonymous]

the message of Dungeon Meshi is it’s okay if you can’t take care of yourself and can only take care of others, but you have to let others take care of you too

[mushiemadarame]

⇢ Boom Raweewit Jiraphongkanon as Akin Tahra (Top Form, 2025, EP04)

[foxqueen-katarian]

I don’t think having connections to previous campaigns was the problem, I think centering your entire backstory around them was.

Orym has a tenuous connection to Kiki, and this manifests in knowing more about what’s happening in the wider political landscape (even if it’s just knowing who the players are). Orym is a fully functional person outside of his connection to Kiki. In fact you can remove his being a Tempest Blade from his backstory and just make him a standard Ashari and it all still makes sense.

Bertrand went to the Hells with VM, but other than being able to name drop them, he didn’t have much going on with them.

Ashton having Dunamancy Juice in his brain made for some interesting conversations with Essek, and Caleb, and the Bright Queen. But he had other shit going on between the Titans and trying to keep his suicidal robot friend alive, and finding out what happened to him as a kid, that if you took the Dunamancy Juice out there’s still something to dig into.

Laudna’s whole deal though is/was Delilah. You can’t separate her from that callback, you can’t ignore it. It’s there, all the time. And it means that on some level Laudna is a problem the Vox Machina needs to deal with, it means spending time in White Stone, it means interacting with Vox Machina. It means introducing those characters into C3 in a way that you can’t take back or move past.

And it’s funny, because the people I see complain the most about ‘Bells Hells getting sidelined in their own campaign’ are generally Laudna/Imodna stans. Your girl’s the one who opened that door, and once it was opened there was no closing it again.

[op-dumpstertruck]

[Prev]

The kid is writing letters she'll never be able to send.

Part of this AU was the thought that, for all of this to happen and the Strawhats not tearing the whole world apart in the search for them both, they can't know that Sanji is still alive. Which will be properly explored at another point 👀

[visenyaism]

i might get high in my tower but call me a targaryen the way i stay in bread

[bare1ythere]

I watched a video recently on stupid products with AI incorporated into them, like BBQs, baby monitors, mirrors, etc. and it got me thinking about how Severance is a really good metaphor for the overuse of AI in all aspects of life. Using AI to generate an image instead of learning to draw, or to translate your homework instead of learning a language, or to plan your essay instead of thinking critically yourself... severance has the potential to removal all complicated, boring, or unpleasant parts of mundane life, but in doing so leaves little left for your "outie" (in Gemma's case especially). You never have to learn or challenge difficult tasks because you can leave it entirely up to something (someone) else.

[musing-magpie]

something about Leida’s wedding as a means of showing how imperial structures reinforce heteronormative expectations, especially amongst young people

idk this isn’t fully formed but I feel like I’m onto something

EDIT: this has been getting some traction, know that I’m reading everyone’s comments + critiques to this!

[leafatlaw]

Me watching parkour civilization for the 1st time: 'The book was written in parkour' thats so funny, sure this series is a little silly but its got alot of funny moments even with all the vine booms :)

Me, another watch through and two weeks later: See everybody gets the capitalism metaphor in prkciv but- what most people dont realize is that it goes beyond that: the prison industrial complex. See, the people in parkour prison are forced to parkour not only for food but constantly and in many difficult ways. AND because we know that parkour operates as a form of currency in this world, the prisoners are being forced to do something that should result in them being paid, for nothing ! Which bares resemblance to how in the real world, privately owned prisons are able to make a profit by---