#virtual release

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I certainly didn’t see this being on my 2023 bingo card.

Edit: Ya’ll this meme above isn’t accurate anymore since other messages from the group came out. I made this meme when the first initial message came out.

The meme down below is more correct as to what’s probably happening with Ao3. Also wanted to say that despite the name of group, the people behind it are probably Russians.

Edit: July 11th, So Ao3 is back! Though the donation link is being attacked now. There’s also a second account on Twitter trying to impersonate Ao3.

[breezypunk]

You see him all by his lonesome at the arcade room, wyd? ;3

[malwa1216]

Dellamorte Amore

[astarionposting]

Sylus and Elaria | 10 years ago v present ♡

[pinkyjulien]

Valentin Da Silva | 190/??

[artie-doko]

'Meconopsis'

[ouroboros-hideout]

Happy Birthday, Hound Dog

OTP: Like Napalm 04/???

inspired by a sketch @blackrevell did some while ago of Aon sitting at a campfire at a lake. I thought it might be nice if she didn't need to go there alone.

[gloryride]

Cyber Cowboy

[new cowboy shirt by breezy and i soon(tm) ]

[torontotamagotchiclub]

Breaking news! Twoey from the Toronto Tamagotchi Club has received an advance copy of the Tamagotchi Connection re-release, True Friends edition! Stay tuned for exclusive unboxing information.

[mimpinightmare]

Dear Supa Fans, that have been sharing and showcasing their Supa Strikas OCs on Supablr :

I LOVE ALL OF YOU SOOOOO!!!! (Platonically-)

The amount devotion and care you guys have put into your Supa Strikas OCs have been IMMACULTE! I never have seen so much creativity and love from so many amazing folks on here.

The uniqueness of each OC I've encounter have been such a fun experience, whether is learning and reading facts you create about them, making art about them, making stories about them. I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY THE SHEER AMOUT OF JOY YOU PUT ONTO THEM, WITH SUCH PASSION!!! ✨✨✨

Regardless you have been sharing your Supa Strikas OCs from the past or recent, I've always found myself absolutely delighted encounter a creation you made from what you love. Old stuff or new stuff, I'm ecstatic to see them! It's so wholesome to see people are happy and having fun from what they've created, and I hope it will continue on~

Please do continue and strive with your creation, making art, stories, WONDERFUL STUFF you could think of! PLEASE DO BE YOUR AMAZING, CREATIVE, WONDERFUL SELVES!!! ✨💜💛💜💛💜💛💜✨

- MimpiNightmare

[eurodyne-d]

🩸 SPLATTER. (x) (x)

[breezypunk]

Layne Valerie King - Princess of pain.

Mercy is back and got a little re-vamp! I missed her dearly, and after I brought her out to play model, I knew I needed to spend more time with her. ♥

[elvenbeard]

~ entangled with you ~

I'm a big sucker for the whole concept of soulmates attached to each other by a red string of sorts ;_; their fates entangled with each other even when they don't know it yet.

Also, Kerry's dimples and grey beard make my knees go weak XD

This set is a tribute to both!

[joycrispy]

Sometimes ADHD likes to throw you a curveball, and in my latest "I do not control the hyperfixation" development: I was suddenly possessed, at FOUR IN THE MORNING, to buy myself a tamagotchi out of literally nowhere, and now all I want to do is play with it and look at tamagotchi content.

...I also bought a second tamagotchi. Oops.

[aurosoulart]

lil AR firefly pond test with the new light emission + animation build........ I am in love 🥺

[astralleywright]

some context: a few days ago i received a response on one of my posts that asked what the point was of getting rid of the gods now, when all of their wrongdoing was seemingly so far in the past. i wrote a very long answer, they responded with very generic c3 discourse points (lol, lmao), so as to not make all that work a waste of my fucking time here it is divorced of the even longer post it was attached to:

First, the gods have supported the actions of their followers (beyond just being the ones providing their powers, who could conceivably take them away if they disapproved). see the Dawnfather sending an angel down to defend his follower's colonial holdings in Hearthdell. this is not the only way they're seen negatively intervening in this very campaign (not to mention others)-see the Spider Queen corrupting Opal and eventually destroying her memories and identities to make her a slave. when I speak about the imperialist, mass murdering behavior of the gods, I am also speaking about the Betrayer Gods, who are all still alive and still aiming to slaughter all mortals. their efforts to do this, and to free themselves, still lead to substantial amounts of death and misery, amounts that will increase exponentially if any of them manage to escape.

Which may happen very very soon! In their talk with the Hells, the Archeart repeatedly said the gods are actively discussing, and on the verge of, opening up the Divine Gate and starting another Calamity.

This was in fact the Archeart's major fear and what they were desperately trying to avoid. (It's good here to note that this was Abubakar's read on the situation, and how he thought the Archeart would see it-Matt may have other solutions in mind besides releasing Predathos.)

The Matron later issues an even more dire version of this warning-she and the Archeart may be the only two gods preventing them from opening the Divine Gate and unleashing another armageddon.

Which brings me to the "why now?" of it all, and the main reason to consider getting rid of the gods in the first place, which is prevention. If the gods remove the Divine Gate and another Calamity starts, it will be because Ludinus forced their hand. Ludinus, working on this plan for almost a millenia, his hatred of the gods motivated by the genocide of Aeor and growing up in it's ruins. Well, the god's hands were forced in Aeor, because the Aeorians had built the Factorum Malleus to kill the gods-which they did out of fear.

Aeorians made the Factorum Malleus because they were a century into a war between the gods that had been extended indefinitely by the Primes refusal to kill the Betrayers. There is even a faction, represented by Cassida, that specifically only wants to kill the Betrayers and help the Primes win; but the Primes won't consider this option for even a moment, and she dies a brutal death after being humiliated and condescended to by the very gods she gave everything to help.

On the next rung down, you can argue that the Calamity started because of the actions of a mortal, which, sure; but Vespin Chloris was trying to replace Asmodeus specifically because he was a Betrayer God, and getting rid of him would mean there was one less god actively working to kill all mortals.

The Betrayer Gods, who the Primes will not kill. (Even though the reverse is not true-Brennan confirmed they were attempting to keep the Factorum Malleus up and running to destroy the Primes with.)

There are understandable, sympathetic motivations for this on the Prime's part-the Betrayers are their siblings, after all. But consider this all from the perspective of a mortal, who can devote their entire life to a diety that can and will erase them and their own family in an instant to protect their own. The Divine Gate was supposed to be their penance for this, and yet a millenia later they're ready to tear it down again and repeat the same cycles all over.

What happens when the next Calamity ends and there's a whole new generation of refugees and orphans left in the wake of the gods' self-preservation? Or what happens if they keep Predathos trapped, now that so many people know of it's existence and that there's a way to release it? What happens to all the Ruidisborn necessary for it to be released? Do the gods continue to abide their presence, close as they are to the knowledge held by every Aeorian? Is everything fine only if every single mortal on Exandria plays the perfect victim, forgives and forgets?

(I would also point out that, behind the Divine Gate and acting in less interventionist roles, the threat the gods pose to mortals in turn feels even less justified, even if it's more distant. It matters when Imogen, Ashton, Dorian point out that a god never answered their prayers or helped them because it shows that for many, there are no benefits to the current arrangement, only risks).