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[alchemaxed]

@bigshot // Cont !

Is this what the Stars wanted when they limited his portals? For him to get accosted on the sidewalk by something even stranger than he is, trapped without a single hole of escape?

(He technically still has several spots at his disposal, but why should he have to waste one on something like this?)

"C'mon, man," he whines again, stutter-stepping this way and that as the smaller anomaly(?) cuts him off again and again. This is ridiculous. Maybe Spot should just try stepping over him...?

"Uhuh. Yeah. Real, uh, handy. ...how are you even talking like that, by the way?" It's weird. This whole situation is weird. Why does this sort of thing always happen to John?

He's just begun to consider using up one of his remaining portals to send his problem far, far away, when the stranger lands on the magic word:

"Employment?"

"Yes, actually! I'm a little strapped for cash-- dust, I guess-- at the moment. Haha. Wouldn't you know it, they bring you here and don't even set you up with a, y'know, a-- a job, or--! ...you want me? You wanna hire me?"

It makes sense that the only person willing to give him a chance anymore is someone like this, but he can't be choosy-- not when he's living somewhere that seems to rely exclusively on digital currency, making stealing to survive a heck of a lot harder than it was in NYC. Not that he was particularly successful there, either.

"What were you saying before? I wasn't really paying attention. You want to pay me for my holes?"

[codexvmbra]

"Hell if I know. Call someone, perhaps? It is supposed to be a phone, is it not?"

Who would Maxwell even call...?

"I've been told I can pay with it, among other things." So far, everyone's been gracious enough to handle that process for him when he's wanted to make a purchase.

"I suppose the first step would be to understand what it is actually used for. You have one, too, yes?"

"What're you trying to do?" Brad's not the most social, and generally doesn't care about others, but...

He can emphasize with a fellow grumpy old man.

[rhapsoddity]

IMPULSE BE UPON YE

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Secret Santa gift for @aestheticallynotdeerlightful 💕

[verso-abstracto]

No quiero dejarte ir, pero en este momento no puedo ofrecerte felicidad. Juro que, en cuanto pueda, volveré por ti.

-Pattinson_v

[edorazzi]

It's Tintin Day again!!! 💖

Bringing back Thunderbirds' Tin-Tin Kyrano for a cute outfit swap because I love her. Her pets sure are colder, scalier and snappier than Snowy! 🐊🐶

[alchemaxed]

Spot starts, whirling around to face the stranger who, apparently, has overheard him encouraging himself aloud to dive head-first into the abyss. Spot can only assume that this person-- some sort of very, very impressive-looking knight-- is from a reality in which the idea of interdimensional travel is still centuries or millennia away from being thought up. To this man, being yoinked from his homeworld must have felt like crossing the threshold of life and death; after all, what else could he mean by die "again"?

"You expect me to believe they put a burger place at the bottom of that?" is what John says first, then: "Why, uh... why are you still wearing your armor?" This guy's clearly been here a while, right? Surely long enough to procure a less conspicuous outfit, at least.

Distracted from the pit of indeterminate lethality by the novelty of this stranger, Spot leans toward him instead, lifting one hand as though considering whether to reach out to poke the other man.

Gabriel would know Minos by sight anywhere—it's not like there are that many slightly translucent, white-bodied guys with holes for faces running around. His heart drops as he rushes to the center of the city, unsure what the Prime Soul would have to say to him—in hatred or anger, or in peace…?

It takes him a moment to realize the voice is coming from the hole-person. Not Minos. It's not Minos. It's such intense whiplash that he has to stop briefly to reorient himself. He knows newcomers to this place are stripped of their abilities, but centuries of habit (and knowing the distaste Hell's denizens often have for angels) mean he can't help but approach the unfamiliar Prime Soul (?) cautiously.

Gabriel clears his throat.

"Eager to die again so soon?" he says, eyeing the newcomer with trepidation. "They do resurrect you, so you could hardly call it an afterlife. It's not too interesting, all told. There's a nice burger place down there." Gabriel leans over the side as well. "…if you eat, I mean." His own cross-faced helmet doesn't betray if he means it as a joke or not.

[hjansetv]

How we feeling about my new Uzi, N and V designs? :3

[officialrailscales]

Two-Tone Thursday Loadout 🎨

RSBM-P | OD Green

HTP MLOK Scales | Honeycomb Texture | OD Green

HTP MLOK Scales | Honeycomb Texture | Black

QDX Sling Mount | Carbon Black

CSMR Button | Apex Style | Carbon Black

- RS

[alchemaxed]

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Spot asks, regretting his words as soon as they're out of his face-hole. He sounds so pathetic. He sounds as though the basic dignity of being listened to is something new and foreign, and although that's not altogether inaccurate, it's still embarrassing to admit.

"As a villain, I mean," he quickly amends. "You're a Spider-Man, aren't you supposed to do something about me? Not that I'm complaining!"

Spot himself is in no rush to trade blows with this latest spider-guy. This one isn't his Spider-Man, and Spot's already tried and failed to brush up on his skills against the first spider he's met here. At this point, he kind of just wants to be left alone to test the new limitations of his abilities in peace.

...but sharing pastries with Spider-Man outside the cafe Spot had been casing out isn't so bad, either.

@thwipthwipgo // starter call.

[inbabylontheywept]

A Short Essay on Signal Reflections

The essay nobody asked for, but I've been reading about for around a week, and now can explain very easily and intuitively.

When electricity flows from a region with low impedance to a region with high impedance, a reflection of the signal passes back up the cable towards the source. This tends to make the most intuitive sense to people - after all, the high impedance region is easy to imagine as a traffic jam, and the ripple going up the line is just all the electrons having to slam their brakes. We've seen this before.

However, you get an identical ripple when going from a region with high impedance to a region with low impedance, which kind of mangles that analogy. You don't see traffic jams in regions where the speed limit goes up, just in places where it goes down.

And so for that, we're going to have to break the signal into two parts.

V=IR is bread and butter, but nobody accounts for those in time. Everyone does DC steady state analysis, and this is slightly weirder. So in a line with low impedance to high, you just look at how much V (voltage) you need to push the same amount of current (I). Since R is getting bigger, you now run out of voltage before you run out of current. So all the voltage gets used up, some of the current gets used up, and the current that no longer has enough voltage to get pushed forward can't enter the new material and thus bounces backwards up the line. The reverse happens with high to low. You now run out of current (I) before you run out of voltage (V) because R got smaller and energy must be conserved, so you get a voltage wave that bounces up the line. So any time R changes you have too much of either current or voltage and the extra gets sent back.

There are some weird implications to this! For example, a zero impedance ground would actually be hella noisy because it would accept 100% of the current into it, but reflect the entire voltage signal back. And an infinite impedance ground would eat the entire voltage field, but reflect 100% of the current back. An ideal ground for low noise needs to have the same impedance as the node its attached to.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

Grief

Sometimes it hurts to see people post art commissions. I’m happy for them but in pain that I’ll never see my character rendered by Moya again. I wish had every oc done. I’m so lucky I got 2 I’m so lucky I got doodles and requests and squiggles and got to see their art at all.

[ladydaybreaker]

A Midnight Exorcism

The manor was quiet as the quartet slunk around in the dark. Tessa held the USBfix in one hand and a candelabrum in the other, her nightgown swishing against her ankles as her bare feet padded along the wooden floor. The lightning from the storm outside flashed, causing the shadows cast by the quartet to appear longer, tree branch and barred window creating interesting shapes on the four.  “Keep an eye out,” Tessa warned quietly, “Any hint of yellow an’ you lot lemme know, kay?” Three nods gave affirmation as the shadows twisted and turned around them. Every dark corner carried a threat, every turn in the hall carried a danger. But, the worries were unfounded. The Solver was nowhere near.

-iNtersubJeCtiVe requital ch. 20

Pay no attention to the shadows...for surely they don't mean anything. Right?

HOOOOO MY GOD FINALLY THIS IS FINISHED! So this was my absolute favorite drawing that I had done like...ever. It was the one that I was actually proud of. And when I got the new tablet I was like "I wanna redo this one."

This was also completely free handed...unlike with the JS DDs which I traced because SCREW doing their legs and arms again.

Many thanks to @ahonokio and @audiart for all the advice and help! They put up with my uhhhh inaptitude in layers and this program. Both of them probably shaking their heads going "Lady wtf..." when I drew this on a dark canvas and went "Heeeey guyyyys? How do I make this transparent so I don't cry when I paste the manor crew in?"

I have learned my lesson...always sketch on a different layer that overlays the pattern...

Love ya both, thank you for all the help!!

I...might have added a few things in there that were different from the original :3

[alchemaxed]

The angel hadn't lied; this place and its keepers have done a number on Spot's abilities. ...and just when he had been getting the hang of them, too. It's so unfair.

Short-range portals seem to be working just fine (as long as he doesn't try to use too many in a day), but all inter-dimensional travel seems to have been blocked. As any good scientist would, Spot has begun experimenting with range and size, testing the Star-imposed limits to his abilities. His research has been chugging along nicely, although his lack of familiarity with Radial Island as a whole means that sending holes beyond his field of vision has the potential to lead to some unexpected situations.

"Whoopsie," he says, more to himself than to the young man who's just fallen through Spot's latest hole.

"What was that? Sixty miles? Sixty-five...?" Ohnn scribbles something down on a small notepad before he finally looks up and acknowledges his the victim of his accidental kidnapping.

"Sorry. Let's just... pop you right back in there..." The portal fluctuates and fizzles, closing in on itself with a quiet poit!.

Double-whoopsie.

"...okay, that was definitely my fault. You're not hurt, though, right? Of course you're not! ...haha... hah."

"I'd buy you a train ticket back, but I'm fresh out of Dust, wouldn't you know it...!"

"All the Answers Can Be Found in the Field"

Camera ready. Eye peeled. And not an inch of red hair out in the open for someone to spot, and come after him for. Badou’s been doing this a long time, longer here in this city. And the little groups of thugs around here, selling and dealing, that’s all the same too. 

This is just a normal day. They’re discussing something, and Badou’s eating that crap up, smirking to himself as he writes notes, too.

And then a hole opens up in the freaking floor– and the day is no longer normal.

“The fuck–” 

@alchemaxed​

[laltyxd]

FransMonthly: Cuddles

Esp: Holaa mi querida comunidad frans :D! Este es mi primer post acá en tumblr y espero que les guste :]

Ing: Helloo my dear frans comunity :D! This is my first post on tumblr and i hope you guys like it :]

@frans-monthly

(this counts as cuddles right? I hope)

[27dragons]

On learning languages...

I've been doing Spanish lessons on Duolingo for about a year now (because of reasons) and some lessons are harder than others (i hate gendered nouns so much) but overall it's going slowly but steadily. I've just about gotten to the point where I can read simple things if I've got a way to look up words I don't know yet.

The last couple of units have been on past tense, which is great, it opens up lots of avenues for conversation and reading. Except this unit.

The most recent set of lessons it gave me combined -- among other things -- the verbs ver ("to see") and venir ("to come"). Very useful verbs. Except THEY'RE SO EASY TO MISTAKE FOR ONE ANOTHER, especially when you get into the past tense and the 'e' changes to an 'i' or sometimes an 'ie'.

What even the FUCK. I got so fed up today I had to sit down and make up a chart.

Present tense: (ver) yo veo, tú ves, él ve, nosotros vemos, ellos ven (venir) yo voy, tú vienes, él viene, nosotros venimos, ellos vienen

and in the past (preterite): (ver) yo vi, tú viste, él vió, nosotros vimos, ellos vieron (venir) yo vine, tú viniste, él vino, nosotros vinimos, ellos vinieron

I'm sure I'll get them down eventually. BUT WHY DID DUOLINGO FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE THEM BOTH TO ME IN THE SAME UNIT???

(My Spanish-speakers are looking at me with that little frown that means "what are you talking about, these are perfectly clear and distinct words?" aren't you?)

[nobodyexpectsthe]

its done, ty for saint, alex & mel for supporting me through this trying time.

my final thoughts are... do any of my solas mutuals want to write the messiest continuation of the messy ending possible, bc i am so here for it

i felt so bad for solas in the ending. i have so many feelings about mythal and how unexplored their entire relationship dynamic is and how the game doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that.

anyway, i think pirith & solas' stories have some very unfortunate parallels bc pirith ultimately ended up a tool to fix solas' mistake. one who may have befriended him & help change his mind on the humanity and worth of the modern world, but one he initially used for a specific purpose. and that use bound him to a cause that was not congruent with his nature, twisting him into something he didn't recognize.

solas never meant to do to another what was done to him.

so, ending spoiler talk.

pirith would absolutely follow him solas the fade, romanced or not, because stopping solas was the last thing tying him to this world.

and i think he realizes that as he is now, the power he possesses and the knowledge he knows may be too tempting to abuse. solas was backed into a corner and reached for the only solution he saw, and doing so fundamentally broke the world. his good intentions did not save him from a devastating outcome.

and pirith may well stumble down the wrong path and repeat their bloody history if his back is pressed to the same wall.

pirith would have been so tempted by elgar'nan's words. so horrifyingly tempted. and that that would have shaken him to his core, because he'd long known any man could be tempted by demons - but it wasn't demons that had compelled him, it was the ability to make it all stop.

pirith had seen firsthand how when you are the most powerful person in a room, no one can stop you from doing whatever you pleased. whether the power is physical, magical, or political - all of it is inherently corrupting. be it because you hold a hammer in your hand and the solution to every problem starts looking like a nail, or because the people around you covet your favor and will not stop you if you make the wrong move.

or worse, they're too afraid to lift a finger, raise a voice, because they know you could hurt them. you've a lot of blood on your hands, after all. what's a few more drops?

part of him will forever be grateful to those painful and messy days as inquisitor because they kept him grounded.

but they're ten years out from that. whether he learns this masquerading as the seemingly powerless rook, or whether he learns it through meeting rook, it starts to sink in that he may have lost his way.

but like solas, he's come too far to stop.

and he's so tired. and so much more powerful than he was. he has secrets in his skull that will forever whisper and tempt him when things get miserable and desperate, and he knows they will.

and that said, in his anger and desperation, i think pirith would also fucking absolutely do the stab him ending.

if he's the inquisitor, or if some random side-quest was done to find ilnarel living in minrathous (he'd never have made it to treviso) pirith would turn and see his brother dive at solas and would get there first, and realize that tying the veil to solas' life isn't enough because he's known solas' desperation and would end himself if it meant his last mission was finally fufilled.

and so looking at the baby brother he'd lost twice and just now found, he would smile and tell him he loves him so much, that he's got such a bright future ahead of him and he's just glad he got to see the man he grew into before the end.

and then he'd slice open his palm to to binds himself to the veil, diving into the void after solas to ensure that they are both taken off the board and the world can know some measure of peace.

and then in the fade they are probably having it out. just a massive, massive thunderously low approval blowout.

and then i dunno slowly work their way towards healing and understanding each other now that there are no secrets between them. maybe discuss bringing the veil down at a better time and in a more controlled way.